thirty英语散文：Promise of Bluebirds(蓝知更鸟的希望)

2021年1月9日发(作者：熊怡)
英语散文：Promise of Bluebirds(蓝知更鸟的希望)

Promise of Bluebirds

The Pennsylvania-landscape was in severe wintry garb as our
car sped westover the interstate Ul The season was wrong,
butI couldn't get bluebirds outof my head.

Only three weeks before, at Christmas, Dad had given me a
nesting box he'dmade： He had a special feeling for the
brilliant creatures, and each spring heeagerly awaited their
return. Now I wondered, will he ever see one again?

It was a heart attack. Dad's third.

When I got to the hospital at 2 a.m., he was losing the
fight. As the familyhovered at his bedside, he drifted in and
out of consciousness.

Once he looked up sitting beside the bed holding his
hand. ：but I can't. I
don't want to.
murmured.

The next morning the cardiologist met us in the waiting room.

strengthMy youngest brother was only five when Ileft home 30
years ago. Relation-ships between my brothers- and sisters
had become -frayed because of dis-tance and commitments to
our own families. But Dad needed his childrennow, so we
stayed at the hospital. During the long vigil, we reminisced
aboutour years at home.