I was swimming laps in my pool trying to beat the already almost unbearable Texas heat last week. I was on my back kicking across the pool when a sight in the sky stopped my swimming and started my thinking. I quit kicking and floated on my back - looking up. Way above me were white trail marks of airplanes and I watched a large bird lazily fly back and forth with the white streaks as its backdrop.  A few yards above me, a mockingbird flew by. As I watched the two birds in the sky above me, a Keep Reading...