even if
there is not a bird meeting
going on way up high and overhead
it’s good to be aware
have a plan
for when the sentinels
guarding their castle
make their move.
—
“there’s always a reason to look up.”
-a.d.posey
Sep7
Tag Archives: birds
Jul28
chatting.
friends meet under the bridge
and relax into an after-dinner chat.
—
“I’d be smiling and chatting away,
and my mind would be floating around somewhere else
like a balloon with a broken string.”
-haruki murakami
—
Ann Arbor, mi – summer 2019
Dec31
moving.
starlings come together and move into the shape of a giant bird.
kinders come together to see if the birds are eating the food they’ve left for them
—
“do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?”
-marcel marceau
—
credits: guy benson, attenborough nature preserve, bbc news east midlands
Nov29
no harm, some fowl.
Oct9
audience.
walking through a park
on a beautiful day
looking up to the sky
and
quietly sitting way up there
was a very polite and interested audience
it was standing room only.
—
“ive never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and i’m pleasantly surprised when it does.”
-tom petty (r.i.p.)
—
south pond park, ann arbor, michigan, usa
Jul17
crows.
interrupted a meeting in the park today
wonder what they’re planning…
—
“never a good sign, he thought, when the crows showed up.”
-justin cronin
May6
chicken or the egg?
today, mr. roger, our snowplow driver
came back to our room
and brought some of his favorite birds to meet us
these two are chickens named marco polo and maranella
and they are married.
his granddaughter has a chicken for a pet and reads with it
and he really loves birds
even more than snowplowing.
mr. roger even showed us some of maranella’s treasures – her eggs
and we had the chance to gently touch everything and ask all kinds of questions.
it was amazing because he knew all of the answers.
he sure knows a lot about a lot.
—
“if I hadn’t started painting, i would have raised chickens.”
-grandma moses
Mar28
wingspan.
at the nature center for grandie v’s 6th birthday celebration
the scientist helps us to measure our wingspans
before we take a stroll outside to find this beautiful bird
rescued and healing a broken wing
whose wingspan we hope will return one day
and we are grateful to have our wings.
“happiness makes up for height for what it lacks in length.”
-robert frost
Dec14
birds.
kinders watch
to see when the birds will come
to eat the treats
they’ve made for them
and hung up high in the trees
so they don’t go hungry in the winter’s snow.
—
“be grateful for luck. pay the thunder no mind – listen to the birds. and don’t hate nobody.
-eubie blake
Mar13
sharing the night with the pink ballerinas
even the flamingos came out at night to play – dominican republic
“We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil. Serenity is contagious. If we smile at someone, he or she will smile back. And a smile costs nothing. We should plague everyone with joy. If we are to die in a minute, why not die happily, laughing?”
Swami Satchidananda
