Baseball DIY

The coolest thing to happen in a long long time has just been made public. The Ivory-billed Woodepecker, thought extinct for sixty years, has been seen (and video taped) in Arkansas.

You know what this means? This means we are living in the presence of a miracle. No storeis about distant weeping statues or parting seas, we get to see a bird fly out of the forest that has not been visible for decades. The last person to see it was a child born during the Great Depression.

And now they are letting us see them once again.

What I love about this is that the ornithologists who saw the bird a year ago have been very very careful about who they let know about it. They've been holding their cards tight to their chests and making sure that everything about this was done in the best possible way for the birds. That means that the publicity is so great that the government has to acknowledge that an extinct bird has returned from the dead and they have to make sure that the bird remains protected.

And that means that maybe my grandchildren will see get to see the Ivory-billed Woodpecker flying wild one day too.

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker is also know as the "Lord God Bird", because it is so beautiful that people would yell "Lord God, look at that bird!" when they first saw it.

And now it's back. I am so so happy about this.