Amidst political cacophony it is particularly important to still the mind and open oneself to beauty and the interconnected strands of life around us. I had such an experience this week. Among my daily mountain bike rides, several each week pause at a small waterfall. The waterfall is not steep or high and decidedly mundane, particularly in that it is man-engineered. Nonetheless, I step down the rocks and sit on a block of granite, just a dozen feet from the swirling pool at the fall’s base. In a sub-urban high desert, it is a slight refuge to be sure. But an intentional focus of perspective and silencing of the extraneous lends the place a sense of magic, not entirely distant from the experience of a “real” waterfall in the remote Rocky or Adirondack Mountains.
Love this Steve. It describes the relationship that I have with a tree in Central Park, or shall I say love affair with MyTree. When I visit and talk, the tree inevitably drops a leaf on my shoulder. So dear to me.
Lovely! I've a high school classmate whose pack patio abuts a bird sanctuary. He's reported similar instances where communications seem to have passed between him and various individual birds. Why not? You are both animals, after all, and aren't in a hunter/prey relationship.
Just beautiful, Steve. Especially as life gets harder, it is imperative that we seek out and recognize the beauty of these kinds of encounters. She likes you.
Don't need to know her intention. Just take it as a wonderful gift and keep it with you. My life is filled with these connections, and sometimes it is with a plant, for gosh sakes!!
Michael and Dawn Marie have been feeding the crows that settle on their ledge for years. Crows recognize faces, and know that these two are benign. They will often accompany Dawn Marie as she walks to work.
Love this Steve. It describes the relationship that I have with a tree in Central Park, or shall I say love affair with MyTree. When I visit and talk, the tree inevitably drops a leaf on my shoulder. So dear to me.
Lovely! I've a high school classmate whose pack patio abuts a bird sanctuary. He's reported similar instances where communications seem to have passed between him and various individual birds. Why not? You are both animals, after all, and aren't in a hunter/prey relationship.
Just beautiful, Steve. Especially as life gets harder, it is imperative that we seek out and recognize the beauty of these kinds of encounters. She likes you.
The connection is real.
Take joy whenever you can!
Don't need to know her intention. Just take it as a wonderful gift and keep it with you. My life is filled with these connections, and sometimes it is with a plant, for gosh sakes!!
Michael and Dawn Marie have been feeding the crows that settle on their ledge for years. Crows recognize faces, and know that these two are benign. They will often accompany Dawn Marie as she walks to work.
There you have it. This heron knows you.