It's February 1st Wednesday. I'm driving just passing over San Rafael Transit Center now on the 101. Sorry, not the 101 now it's 580. And it's a 908 and I was listening to a rookie more coming, killing from mandatory. I mean it was playing in the background. I wasn't really interested in it. And another idea for my parents story came to me. I was about to first note that I think I'm not a new title, but familiar. That's it. It's called familiar. One word, you know obviously it's got the word familiar, obviously shares the same group that the word family does. And I think it works because I'm there's so many it's familiarity that really recurs as a theme. Struggling with familiarity, struggling with the lack of familiarity. But that's where I think the strength, well that's where the cohesiveness really should should be focused. So you know the central theme is familiarity. So that being said, still struggling with using all the ideas together because you know I still believe it should be a story cycle. I still believe it has to involve some sort of consciousness that's beyond the protagonist. And sort of, I mean obviously it would be the narrator that it never mentioned, but it can be mentioned. And so that's where I was really hoping to use the voice of birds because birds come and go. They are familiar, but they only see pieces of the story. And their version of the story is similar to you know someone searching for their own story when they don't have it. And so I mean just in saying that alone makes me think, oh wow, searching for a story could even be you know a good title. So anyway, what is the birds doing? Well the birds that are observing the protagonist and in their short little experience, they are adding place, adding sort of a perspective that is like a bird of birds eye view so to speak. And with that view we can get an idea in terms of the expand between the two protagonists. So I want to focus more on what the birds doing. The other day when I was sketching out at the port of Madera, I was watching the birds. And obviously when I first got there they were a little scared of me and they walked away and they realized I wasn't going to go into the threat and so they stayed and they did their own thing but they kind of feel like in some ways maybe they were talking about me to each other. And that can happen to and I think it's a good technique. It's a creative technique to write about to kind of introduce a character or to describe a character in a way that isn't just so obvious. And maybe there are those who you know want the obvious, I don't want the obvious. And so look at the bird, for example, perhaps it starts out with a crow that is observing the 13 year old girl who is, you know, lost in a daydream, you know, in her backyard, in the neighbors farm, you know, in the early 1950s. The crow can simply observe what she does. You know, maybe she offers, you know, in a piece of her friend. And he talks about how, you know, it took me a while to get used to it but I eventually did. And now, you know, whenever she appears I call out and I share her bread with my family, something like that, you know. But the idea is that the crow is actually introducing her character, you know. Her physicality. And that's it. And we don't really, we don't really know what the crow knows in these videos. And the purpose of that is to fill in the blank. I want to be, I don't want to embellish. Therefore, I want to point that we know we can't literally trust. And that voice is the voice of a crow or a bird for that matter. They cannot be close to the person just like I can't be close to my parents and get their real story. And so, in some way, yeah, I feel like I'm that bird. And I can only see what I can see in a distance. And that's all the reader is going to learn about the characters. So, yeah, that's what I think should be going on there. We still don't know how to then eventually integrate the secret, the society that kind of runs the sort of piggyback off of the pen pal organization. But the idea is, yeah, they are, they're also birds. They believe in the spirit that the spirit of the bird is within them and guide them. And in what's the same way as a bird knows where to fly. We don't really know how it knows where to fly. We know it obviously has something to do with perhaps the way it uses the earth's magnetism. But in a way, they'll probably make it that up. But yeah, you need to learn more about birds. So, yeah, that's it. And I don't want to well, I obviously have to come to terms with the concepts of birding and the secrets of society. Do I want the secrets of society to be basically a bunch of birds? No, I don't want that. I want them to be more about sharing a secret communication because it's that secret communication that really helps. Kind of. Bring the reader back to what makes to distant people feel familiar in much the same way what makes a bird know that they've flown to the right place. And that's it. In fact, perhaps one of them there could be a dialogue between two birds in the story that is exactly that. A parent bird teaching the child how to navigate. You know, like, how do you know where to fly? Well, you don't, you just feel it. And you know once you feel it. And it's a little vague, but it could also work in sort of characterizing. But what is it that brought someone to acknowledge that she was more familiar with something thousands of miles away than her own family? So yeah. But yeah. All right, I'm done.