5.19.2011

#6 - ducks

They are one of the things that never fail to make me cheerful, as they plod around the Biola campus.


Sometime last year, as I walking towards the main administrative building on campus, I heard a panicked quacking. I saw a mother duck, looking down over a big curb where her many little ducklings were trapped and too small to hop over the curb like she had! It was sort of heart-breaking...later I found out that a team of staff from Metzger had come out and helped all the baby ducks over the curb to their mom. Community at its finest.

When I walk across campus every morning, I often see a duck or two out in the middle of Metzger lawn, just taking its morning walk or nesting in the grass. Today when I got to my car there were two ducks waddling around the parking lot. Question: is it strange how happy they make me?