Birds in the House
After celebrating the new year, I set up my mattress in the living room and fell asleep around 2 A.M. I woke up with the maids moving around the house, cleaning the mess from the night before, but also the sound of flapping wings inside the fireplace (which is kept covered this time of the year.) There's a nest at the top of the chimney and one of the baby swallows had fallen inside the house. I opened the windows and tried to grab it with a piece of cloth, but it dodged me and flew away. An hour later, while I was turning on the computer, my brother called me to say there was another swallow in the living room, this time holding on to the edge of one of the glass doors. Again, we opened the windows and it flew up the mountain. Is there some symbolic meaning surrounding the appearance of swallows inside one's home on new year's day?