Subject: Your gentle simple faith - an example to us all. From: "Cicada Rescue Federation" Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 15:29:33 -0400 Dear Friend-of-the-Federation, Thank you so much for your tender cicada vignette. I read it aloud to the sweaty volunteers as they fastidiously went about their afternoon eye-dropper-Feeding duties (our little friends in the hospice facility get so hungry!). Your gentle simple faith caused many an eye to well/ heart to swell. Thank you for the encouragement. I must say that I agree with you on this count - There is no need for us to consider our cicada-friends-without-heads (and/or thoraxes/ovipositers/legs/wings/etc.) to be any less cicada than their 'full bodied' counterparts. There is a lot or prejudice out there, and even (if you can believe it) in our very own facility! It is my personal philosophy that the SAME GREEN CICADA BLOOD runs through the veins of every last precious one of them. THE SAME GREEN BLOOD. In closing, and I hope this is of some encouragement to You ? For every ONE cicada you save TODAY equals 26 cicadas 17 years from now! Sincerely, Ruthie X. Rosegrave Cicada Rescue Federation Corporate Headquarters 1-800-4CICADA PS ? And of course, as they say in ?Cicadian? ? ?Dooot ! brrrrrrrrrrrk ssssettttttsrrrrr!? ? And that?s no exaggeration! > To: cicadarescuefed@hotmail.com > Subject: my cicada story > Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 11:34:31 -0400 > > I'd just like to tell you what a wonderful job you are doing. Keep up > the good work. I have a cicada rescue story for you. I found and injured > cicada in my yard. His or her abdomen was gone, and most of his or her > head. But the thorax and wings were still there, and twitching away. I > placed it in the grass. I checked on the cicada several times over the > next ten minutes, and it appeared to be alive and twitching, so I am > sure it went on to live a full and happy life.