Trends

Clothes, phones, diets, catchy phrases, commercials, songs, dishes, books and vehicle styles are all momentary trends.  Some trends impact your social image.  Some trends are a matter of who is selling this or that product, while other trends like a good book may change your ideas about life .......Many of these trends change over time and from generation to generation.  However, some trends linger long into the future.  I wonder what makes some last and others fade away?

I was camping last summer and came across this rock in the sand.  Someone had written this message on the rock.  Although I do not know who wrote it or their intention for it, the rock was placed by the camp Fire!  How apropos.  After that, each time I visited a new campsite, I would write a word or message on a rock and leave it there for others to find.  Some things I wrote were funny, others a phrase to inspire and one time, I left a simple Smiley Face.  I don't know if anyone else has found "my rocks" and left some of their own but  I hope to return to these campsites and who knows, maybe "anonymous" started a new trend........

So, on that note, the quote of the day is:

"Where they come from and where they go are less important than the impact they have on you."  

Bird Brain

I had the liberty the other day to sit in my living room chair and quietly gaze into my backyard.  From out of nowhere this robin flew to the ground and began the feeding ritual of hopping around, pausing and then plucking a worm right out of the ground.  I watched mesmerized by the skill at which this bird was able to find, repeatedly and eat earthworms.

An avid summer fisher-person, I know from experience how challenging it can be to find earthworms when I go digging with a shovel.  How can this bird find them so easily?   Time and time again, she hopped around, paused and then STRIKE, a worm!  And, to top it off, she didn't pull them from the earth in pieces, she had the "whole enchilada," every time.  What skill.

Silly as it may sound, take a moment this spring and watch a robin.  It is a very fascinating dance. How did the Sacred Divine create such a simple marvel in a little robin?

On that note:  "Maybe we should be careful who we call a bird-brain."