Peepers

My friend, Eva, got Peepers 6 years ago. He was one of those birds who wasn't working out in the household he was in. Eva had never had a parrot but she has a warm heart and a giving nature and she took him in. He turned into a source of entertainment, a feathery child, and a lesson in taking creatures as they are. He came preprogrammed to say, "Baby?" and "Peepers?" When I was on the phone with Eva I could always hear him squawking and chirping in the background. When I was at her house Peepers would fly over and sit on me and on one memorable day he stood on my chest, gave me kisses with his leathery tongue on my bottom lip then he cleaned away all the dead skin on my lips. I like to think that that made me part of the flock.

Peepers died on Thursday as result of an accident. I will miss his ninja ways and hope that when he reincarnates, he'll drop in to say hi.

Photo by Peeper's mom, Eva.