Reflection: I'm bringing my tools
'Willing to chance the ice in darkness' — S. Bear Bergman
In Reykjavik recently, someone reported a cygnet (a baby swan) stuck to pond ice.
Kerstin Langerberger, a naturalist, replied, "I am on my way with the necessary equipment": a friend, warm water, a surfboard.
S. Bear Bergman reflected last week:
"Sometimes the necessary equipment is the resolve to try and a friend who will help... sometimes I *am* the necessary equipment - the friend who shows up to make myself useful under the direction of an expert.
...I am going to try starting the days by saying, with all the starch that I imagine a naturalist willing to chance the ice in darkness to save a baby bird might possess: I am on my way with the necessary equipment."
