i am a natural rule bender and steve is a natural rule follower. every now and then i like to provoke him with some slightly outrageous suggestion that i know will divide him painfully between his wish to follow the rule i’m proposing to break, and his wish to follow the competing rule that says “make MJ happy.” increasingly he is willing to choose the latter, which is one more thing i love about him. every once in a while, though, i still get the old skeptical stevie, giving me The Look over his glasses. “just keeping it fresh,” i say. in a similar spirit, i offer you a bird wing this morning, almost entirely stripped of its barbs, but with shafts still intact. this is supposed to be a peaceful and pretty blog. but i’m pretty sure it was little mites that ate away every part of this wing except the skeleton.  just keeping it fresh.

bird wing with no barbs but shafts still in tact

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