Into The Light of a Dark Black Night.

Andy Jordan
13 min readJun 17, 2020

“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
Maya Angelou, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

This story is for the birds.

But maybe you’ll read it anyway.

In Maya Angelou’s famous book, the caged bird sings essentially because it has nothing else to do. The idea here is that the free bird is so busy living its life, it doesn’t have time to sing. It’s off being “busy”, doing “stuff”.

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Andy Jordan

I am a joy seeker. I write and create videos and stories that inspire action around urgent optimism and defiant joy. https://theneedle.space