Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

numbat keeps sending me feathers, and I'm a lazybones tonight, so I'm posting this appreciation and question to, I hope, make up for not having sent a thank-you note.

Four large ones showed up last week with a note saying they were too big to send with an issue of Jabberwocky, and I share Numbat's preference for the tawny frogmouth rom that set. Despite that note, I was startled, halfway through reading said Jabberwocky, to see a gray-and-white-striped feather lying on my desk, clearly having fallen out of the fanzine. Having finished with the fanzine, I took another look in the envelope, and found two more feathers; all three seem to have come from raptors.