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Sunday, November 12, 2006 Of Penguins and Polar Bears

My grandma and I have a Sunday night date. She tells me sometime during the week what the public television show Nature is going to be about, and then if I can, I watch and we discuss. Tonight's show - "Penguins of the Antarctic."

Now the polar bears living in my muse (I'm working on polar bear shape shifters and so am residing somewhere north of the Arctic circle with hunky Scandinavian men) looked at the varieties of penguins and went, "mmm, lunch." The bird lover in me watched their comical waddles, their struggle to raise their chicks, and went "awww." However my muse remembered a book it read, "Silent Snow" about PCB pollution and climate change in the Arctic, and went "yeah, that's what it was talking about" and reminded me of why I now have this fascination with polar bears.

So the muse has come full circle and touched both poles in doing so. One subject may set a writer off on a tangent, but when it surfaces again it does so in new and interesting way. Now I'm probably not going to be writing penguin shape shifters, but oh how adorable (adorable and alpha male don't really go together) if I did. But it was nice to revisit a topic, dwell with it for a while, and gain a new appreciation of the muse.

Posted by Mary Winter :: 6:16 PM :: 2 comments

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