Rev. Danny Fisher

The Washington Post has a really neat piece today about an aviary on the grounds of the Kunzang Palyul Chöling Buddhist temple in Poolesville, MD. The temple’s aviary serves tropical birds–many suffering from a kind of seasonal affective disorder that causes them to self-mutilate. As the article explains:

…Following a commandment to help all living beings, [caretakers at the temple look after] birds that are too aggressive, too frightened or too erratic to be pets.

[Photo by Sarah L. Voisin for the Washington Post.]

The Washington Post reports today that “according to senior U.N. officials, special envoy Ibrahim Gambari has proposed that nations offer Burma financial incentives to free more than 2,000 political prisoners, including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, and to open the country to democratic change.”