The nature of things In general, none of the things with a given natural property can be trained to acquire another. — Aristotle, Ethics Book 2 While I’m sitting at the kitchen table, she comes bustling through the doorway, squawking at my feet. Pushed her away again. Reluctantly I follow her, sit down to supervise while she re-joins him at the bowl. Like children, the rainbow lorikeets are well behaved— while watched. Wild, but fearless for they know I’m under their control, they brush their beaks and breasts against my hand, plunge heads into the jar in haste to get…