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Category Archives: Birds
A Return to Peace
The Ring of Protection is complete! That is what I’m calling the new security fence around the barn that allows the animals to spend the night outdoors rather than shut into stalls to protect them from predators, namely, mountain lions. … Continue reading
The Importance of Brambles
I looked out the living room window this morning to see the flock of California quail that live here. I was delighted to see 11 young ones, grown big enough that it is likely they will survive. In previous years, … Continue reading
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What the Birds Know
I dreamt I was running to catch a train. I had to catch it to make other travel connections. Weighed down with luggage, I couldn’t run fast enough or make the jump onto the moving train. I was running and … Continue reading
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Sheep and Turkey and Cat, Oh My
I looked out the kitchen window this morning to see the three sheep lying in the driveway like little sphinxes, basking in the sun after the heavy rains we had in the night. A wild turkey hen who has been … Continue reading
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Wings of Joy
Hummingbird medicine is joy. Joy dies when caged. Resurrection eve is a time that reminds us all to let our souls go free, to ask ourselves: “What part of me am I caging? Where am I not letting myself fly … Continue reading
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Healing Circle
I woke up thinking about Jean Shinoda’s Bolen’s “Gather the Women” circles, with the phenomenon of the millionth circle (a metaphor for critical mass) tipping the world into higher consciousness, like the hundredth monkey tipping the monkeys into a species-wide … Continue reading
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Labyrinth
Yesterday I went out to the Sonoma coast to return some stones, feathers, and seashells to the wild. Like the hawk leg I told of burying (see Bless the Birds, February 2, 2012), these were among the items on the … Continue reading
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Bless the Birds
Yesterday I finally took care of something that came to me back in December. Among the sacred items of a friend of mine who died was a hawk leg—the whole leg, with feathers, claw, and leather ties with beaded ends … Continue reading
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All My Relations
Poetry on the sanctuary this morning. The quail scratched happily in the driveway where the sheep had left bits of their organic pellets from special treat time yesterday. The covey is huge this year, with at least 50 flowing out … Continue reading