My daughters birthday today.
Today was nice enough to go outside for a bit. Still wintry but mild. I'm on my patio watching my murder of crows picking up the peanuts, the two jays dodging in for their share, the flickers hanging on the seed cakes, and the tiny finches on the suet.
I'm so elated and renewed by what I see. Humanity should be the Shepard of the earth. Lately we've pretty much sucked at that. I can Shepard my little ecosystem here in my back yard and have that resonate back out into the universe. That brings me a lot of joy to help rinse out the crap I've been feeding myself for most of my life. I breathe in the smells of the rain and damp washed world and I feel the wonder and magnitude of being human.
