Lucy Is Flying

Upon my arrival home late one afternoon, I caught the last cluster of geese in the process of getting ready to head for the eastern sky. Lucy was hanging back at a distance when all took flight. I began talking to her, and she was walking towards me when I heard the flock circling round to head west. Lucy heard them too, and like many times before, she called out. I instantly shut my mouth and stood like a statue to make her think I was not there. She changed her course and began walking back towards the pond. As the flock entered the north-west sky, Lucy began honking, and within the next few minutes, she went running south-west with her wings flapping. I cannot relay the feeling experienced when I saw her lift off the ground and make her way up into the sky to join the flock. My little baby has healed – she is doing what many did not think she would ever do – she is flying and I finally saw her do this.

Towards the end of Let Nature Take Its Course?, I mention that “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” was the full name given to this first year gosling-goose. However, what I did not relay was that this  line from the Beatles song is what I sang to her last winter to remind her that she had a purpose on this earth, but in order to fulfill it, she had to regain her strength and live. She is now one-step closer.  So maybe  she will have a hatch this spring, and maybe she will be flying up there in that sky with her diamonds…