“The best laid plans of mice and men, gang aft agley….”

 Not sure how much I want to say about this photo.

I wish I'd seen this live.

I wish I had taken this photo.

I wish our greed for cheap food and our macro-agriculture treatment of the countryside didn't push animals like this to the edge of survival.

I wish, like Rabbie Burns, we saw small animals as gifts of providence to be cherished, rather than as the mere collateral damage of "man's dominion."

I wish our theology had a place for animals, as co-habitants in God's creation.

I wish as human beings we would look humanely forth on those creatures that help us define what it means to be human – attentive wisdom, compassionate care, companionable co-existence.

I wish I'd taken this photo.

I wish I'd seen this live.