At a senior writing class in Chatsworth, an 83-year old man named William wrote a story about surviving a brain aneurysm. He had emergency surgery and woke in a hospital room confused and scared. He noticed a small bird poised on the ledge outside the window. This calmed him as if the bird was a visiting angel. William remained in the hospital for six weeks. The bird visited every morning and William named him Peter (after actor Peter Finch). William read his story aloud in class. After he was finished, we heard tapping on the window. I opened the curtain and saw a small bird flying into the glass trying to enter the room. “There he is,” William said.