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This is now reminding me - someone once concinved me that SAS meant 'silent and sneaky'.

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For some reason I immediately thought of a little mouse running through tunnels.

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I thought of that too!

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founding

I thought of the same! 🐁

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A hummingbird! I watched a few fly so quickly and quietly over the tall grasses of a marsh meadow I thought they were insects. I caught three of them through my binoculars. What a treat to gaze upon a still hummingbird!

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My first thought was a hunting cheetah, the second thought, rather quickly, was death and then the third thought was thought itself.

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Your quiet and quick things grew increasingly philoshopical as they went on :)

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Sep 10Liked by Katherine May

A breath. Specifically the one you take just before you’re excited or nervous about happens.

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Sep 10Liked by Katherine May

Those tiny black-footed hunting cats! The most successful hunter of all the wildcats!

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author

Ooh yes!

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Sep 10Liked by Katherine May

Light

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Aah yes!

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founding

dandelion fluff

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Sep 10Liked by Katherine May

Owl

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Being home alone.

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The quietest and quickest things that I can think of (!) are my thoughts - they repond to the stimuli around me with such speed that I cannot even articulate them into any kind of sense. Except as a felt sense memory - ah, yes! I remember thinking that then, without the voices that engendered my fast response.

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Yes!! Love this!

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I had a Newfoundland dog who loved to hide in the yard on a moonless night. She'd lay perfectly still so she couldn't make any noise, but when I finally saw her, she'd jump up and come running as fast as she could. She also had the loudest laugh that was totally silent.

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author

She sounds wonderful!

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Right after a snow fall at night.

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Sep 10Liked by Katherine May

A feather in the wind!

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Sep 10Liked by Katherine May

The setting sun...

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Sep 10Liked by Katherine May

A rumor spreading in a high school. Yes, there'd be talking, but so much also said through not talking

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Oooh!

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