The Globe and Mail Daniel Scott Tysdal Published March 6, 2021
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Daniel Scott Tysdal is a writer, filmmaker and teacher. His books include The Writing Moment: A Practical Guide to Creating Poems and the forthcoming short-story collection Wave Forms and Doom Scrolls
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I tell my friend what the chickadee who visits did the other morning. On FaceTime, I show him the feeder I was walking to when the chickadee surprised me. He says his grandmother would love to see that, but I don’t have the footage. My friend’s grandmother has dementia, and though, he says, she’s growing more and more withdrawn, witnessing what the chickadee did would give her a real lift. If we could show her, he says, she would smile and exclaim, “That’s chickadees!”