At the water’s edge of a windy ocean, lived a small band of people. They decided to build a tall house. Proud it stood on an impossible rock, eyes blinking into the salt and the howling winds. The women soon found small birds sheltering at the back-door steps. So, they planted them a garden of fragrant blooms and sturdy trees, filled bowls with fresh water and laid out trays of crumbs. Some birds stayed and kept them company, while others came to rest briefly, recover, and then open their wings, lift into the wind, and call their piercing goodbyes.