The Long Conversation NIGHT ACTION Aug. 22, 2021 by Riverwest Radio 2 published on 2021-08-24T20:47:51Z Excerpt: DONDON: Oh Esmerelda, thank you so much for inviting me to this lovely bird concert. ESMERELDA: Oh yes, my pleasure. I love to try to catch their work when I can. DONDON: Yes, is it my ignorance, or is it rare for so many different types of birds to sing together like this. Participate in one orchestra? ESMERELDA: Yes, I think it is rare but not unheard of. Oh, wait, listen, I love this part.----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DONDON: Oh, sort of sounds like they are fighting. ESMERELDA: Yes, a there’s something distinctly martial about that movement. But playful too. As if they are playing capoeira or jujitsu. Something war like and playful at the same time. Serious and playful. DONDON: That’s an excellent combination. ESMERELDA: Yes. A balance dondon. A balance of opposites complimenting each other. Like a thick rich white sauce with just a few hints of sharp bright lemon. DONDON: Speaking of which I brought these small sandwiches for us to nibble on during the concert. ESMERELDA: Oh thank you! DONDON: Cucumber and butter is similar to the combination you were just describing. ESMERELDA: Oh! Are these cucumber and butter sandwiches!!?? DONDON: No. ESMERELDA: Oh listen to the sorrow in this aria. DONDON: Yes, for a big bird that warbler sure does create a small and delicate tone. ESMERELDA: I knew her a little bit once at the water’s edge. She used to write a daily bird’s side newsletter and deliver it at the water’s edge. DONDON: Oh, a daily newsletter? Is there that much happening. ESMERELDA: Right. But that’s what was interesting about her newsletters. Some were a bit ‘newsy’ this or that war or treaty or famine or windfall---which, you know, is not really so newsworthy, what with these being the same stories over and over again throughout all of time. So many of her newsletters were recipes, or bits of overheard conversation, or questionable gossip or bits of song that, out of context made no sense. The newsletters were really varied and became a document of the skies and canopy around the water’s edge but also a document of her interests and moods. A bit of a journal and also just a bit of a collage of a life. DONDON: What is her name? ESMERELDA: I know, I keep saying her because I can’t remember her name. DONDON: Well that newsletter sounds like a fantastic project. Does she still do it? ESMERELDA: I don’t think so. DONDON: Too bad. ESMERELDA: Too bad. Genre Audiobooks