(photo P Volker)
Our moon is in the waning crescent, 8% illumination.
I don’t really know if I have anything more on hummingbird birds but… Well, I’m still enamored with them and think that they bring a certain magic that I find healing. That’s the real bottom line to it right there. Things that have healing qualities should be nurtured, right?
And birds in general have this ability to lift us out of our personal situation, to transcend it. I remember watching flocks of Canada geese high up over my boring suburban neighborhood on their adventurous migrations. Or the crows so free that lived their lives around the island where I did my boot camp. Our kind was being so intensely educated and they winging around as they pleased and taking part in the endless banter of their kind; it looked like fun. And the hummingbirds so agile and fast we can at times maybe just even temporarily live their lives with them.
And bird feeders in general are fun and comforting to watch. And the hummingbird feeders are the simplest and easiest to maintain, additional pluses. We are so lucky that the little birds are here in our local environment year round.
But don’t ever make the mistake of saying around them that they are little! They really don’t come off as little if you watch them for any amount of time. They are brave and feisty way beyond their size. So maybe we can become brave and feisty beyond our size just being around them. I think that it could rub off.
So maybe every new cancer patient should get a bird feeder of some sort as a gift at some point in their treatment as part of their treatment. I think that it is particularly strong medicine. But one needn’t have to be a malade to benefit of course.
October Wednesday loves, Felipé.
As an aside about animals,well I suppose we’re animals too at least our bodies but minds might be something else?,did you know that very large animals like Blue Whales don’t get cancer? although an elephant is much smaller cancer is very rare among them.i’ve read various theories about why it should be but I’ve forgotten what they where!not that it’ll do us much good as we can’t increase our size and if we did we could find ourselves on a diner plate in Japan as their very scientific research on whales continues!I wonder if our western scientists eat the lab rats they run their test on afterwards!!
Kevan ~ that is most interesting. I hadn’t thought about all that. Sure is prevalent among us guys. Felipé.
I’m 101% with you on the belief that birds have an amazing ability to assist humans in the healing process. So pleased to know those mighty little giants are with you year round. Keep feeding them and they will feed you in return.
Flying High.
William.
William ~ I am really enthused about this topic. It is a real thing. Felipé.
Great post – every word! I love watching the hummingbirds come to our two feeders, too – never gets old. Just like seeing the eagles soar by and the crows getting up to whatever they are getting up to! We were up on San Juan Island this past weekend and on a hike that ended in some supreme winds, we caught a group of gulls riding the air – pulling way up, twisting, hanging seemingly still and dropping/flying off to do it again. So fun and intoxicating to watch! Correlations to Camino (and Cancer, though I can only imagine) provoking and resonating as well. Wing Flapping Loves, Robbi
Robbi ~ you are right, it never gets old! They in their endless gyrations have the endless ability to draw us out of ourselves. And that is exactly what we need when we have problems and we get stuck in our own heads. Cancer patients for one get stuck and never get beyond it. Felipé.x
Probably to do with our, human, fairly long life spans and fairly high metabolisms.ironically if we did live so long we’d have less chance of developing ailments but I know which, given I have no choice, I’d prefer? something like a Galapagos Tortoise lives a long time although the Seychelles Tortoise is I think the longest lived and one that had met Napoleon the 1st only died in the early 2000s.that tortoise must have been on St Helena where said gent was exiled by the Duke of Wellington and his Prussian allies.it had obviously, like Napoleon,been taken there….he from France it from the Seychelles.
Kevan ~ ah, God’s creatures, big and small, young and old. I say a story recently about a shark that they ran into that has been around since the 1600’s. Got any news on that guy, gal? Felipé.
Probably a Greenland Shark? very long lived as they have a very slow metabolism due to the fridged seas they inhabit.we had a shark washed up about a week ago in the next town, Redcar, down the coast.very sharp looking teeth,a Portbeagle Shark the report said.despite appearances apparently harmless to humans with only 3 recorded attacks no of which where fatal.
Kevan ~ right, I think it was the Greenland shark. So, how do they determine the age of a critter like that? How do they know that it is from the 1600’s? Educated guess? Felipé.
I believe that the carbon 14 date the teeth of Greenland Sharks to discover how old they are.prior to the first human made fission reactions on Earth it’s fairly easy to date things, although there had been a natural fission reaction in Gabon,long before it was Gabon, millions of years ago.obviously now we have many more exotic isotopes which have come out of nuclear fission and fusion so it more difficult.
Kevan ~ right, but that is on dead sharks. The way this story read it sounded like they just found this shark from the 1600’s. Anyway… Felipé.