Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything - to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a bird or two, to take a backward look.