Dear Alfred
There are few things as hard as changing directions or as needed.

There are few things as hard as changing directions or as needed.

From Taking Everything into Account, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.

From Alfred’s journal

A hawk came over the field this afternoon and I went out of the maple the wrong way, straight into the open, which is the one direction I did not want. Correcting took longer than the first mistake did; I had speed, and speed is a commitment. I used to think the hard part of flying was getting up, and for a whole year as a young bird I practiced nothing but lift. There are few things as hard as changing directions or as needed. Switch watched the whole business from the fence post and said I looked like a thrown hat. He is not wrong, and I notice he came down the trunk headfirst, which no bird can do and no squirrel seems to think about.

There are few things as hard as changing directions or as needed, wornThere are few things as hard as changing directions or as needed, worn

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