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Greetings one and all! I am so glad you chose to visit today.
On this page you can look forward to finding out a little about who I am as well as some of my favorite works.

First let me introduce myself. My name is Michelle R. B. Everitt. My early education was unique in that it was spent in the Department of Defense School systems in Germany. Where I was proudly a Sembach Tiger. Just before my freshman year of high school we returned to the United States where I would eventually graduate from Lowndes High School. My path would then lead me to graduate from Valdosta State University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre. I have since returned to school and am currently on a quest to earn a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education. I believe that learning is an on going process throughout life and I enjoy every opportunity I have to learn something new.

PBS for Teachers
Discovery Education

As I stated above I had the unique opportunity to spend my growing years in Germany. I used this opportunity to travel Europe. Extending my life experience as a young child to one that I feel very fortunate to have lived. My travels would Lead me to Rome Italy and the day that Pope John Paul II was shot. My mother, sister and I were in the audience when the bullets began to soar our direction. A vivid memory that would forever shape who I am as well as strengthen my religious beliefs for my life.

They Know They Knew

1981: Rome: St Peter’s Square
Everything is quiet. So still.
What do they know?
They roost on the Vatican colonnade.
Waiting on the cusp of the silence for the crash to begin.

POW!
As if in slow motion
Silence, why is everything so silent?
Birds erupt into flight,
John Paul begins to fall
The Swiss Guards right him.
The birds have settled.

POW!
They soar, flap
They ascend and circle overhead.
He begins to fall again.
His dove white robes flutter but show nothing is wrong
Once more, his guards right him.
Now they are just sitting, sitting.
They know.

They sit on the Vatican colonnade as if in wait.
They knew.
POW!
Why do they sit so still?
He falls for the third time
Just as Christ did
And this time, they know,
they see what has happened colleseum

the blood begins to seep through his garb
and his protectors shield him.

Michelle R.B. Everitt 2006

Vatican Museum
Summer as a child was spent in Konigsee

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During my years in Germany I would discover my love for Parrots. I suppose, I was destined to own special needs birds from the very beginning. My very first bird was a parakeet who was missing toes. I would later become Mom to a variety of birds that would pass early in their lives. Today, I am the proud mom of several special needs babies four of which are pictured below. Beginning on the left, Hanna, q Scarlet Macaw, has beak and feet problems. She always stands in a ballet first position and on what would be her wrists. Cloe, a Mulloccan Cockatoo, was rescued from a yard where he had no shade and was being fed nothing but tortilla shells and chips. To this day he still will not touch anything "tortilla". Max, an Umbrella Cockatoo was rescued in Colorado where he had been abandoned in a barn infested with rats. Max does not like two tone hair at all. And finally pictured is Paulie, a Patagonian Conure, who was allowed as a baby bird to float on a pool float in a chlorinated pool. The water from that pool caused brain damage. Although the people who had him did the right thing and fought to save his life he was given up. His irreversible brain damage has caused behavioral problems that make him, at times, difficult to handle. There are many such cases in existence today and my advice before you buy any animal is that you research, research, and of course research once more. We all deserve a chance to have the best home possible and knowledge is the best defense. Below are three links that I Use often when asked about large parrots. Use them, enjoy them, but most importantly read them carefully if you consider a large parrot something you may someday wish to share your life with.

For the Love of a "Too "!
Find any Parrot
Hybrid Macaws

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