The chickens have sparked me to reconsider color, brightness and shape. A new challenge for me, photographically. I like the notion of pecking at life, of awakening to the impact on our consciousness of fear, anger, argument, suffering.  It is difficult to live in our world without encountering these things, because fear and anger is the currency of many of our social interactions.

The chickens, among other things, remind me to keep pecking away. Turning back fear, argument, anger, judgement. I doubt that I will ever be completely done with these things, but they are no longer a reflex, no longer my currency. If there is a surprise for me in all of this, it is how ubiquitous tension and anxiety are, and how few people really wish to live apart from them. That means they are everywhere in our world. Not in the world of chickens.