Positive prompt taken from Nikita Gill's foreword to the poetry collection The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace & Renewal (edited by James Crews)
'What my grandmother gave to me that day was a sense of wonder that the world around us holds magic in what might be considered small and ordinary. The bird that sings outside your window every morning, or as Maggie Smith says in her gorgeous poem "First Fall," "the leaves rusting and crisping at the edges." All you need to do is see it through the enchanted lens that turns the everyday into the extraordinary.'
Yes! I can still remember how that blackbird used to sing in a tree in the parking lot, lying in my bed at five in the morning.... Now the blackbird has gone, to make place for other birds, singing their heads off in the morning in the park below my windows...