I’m outside on these warm nights enjoying the new moon increasing and the sparkling stars.  I’m with Rilke.

Yes — the springtime needed you. Often a star was waiting for you to notice it.

Mark Bittner and his parrot friends inspired the 2003 documentary, “The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill”.  If you want to feel the beauty he understood and felt, watch him on YouTube.  I suggest you begin with All Life is One Whole.  He died peacefully in his sleep with two dogs at his side.  He was 74.