What Nature can Teach US if we listen

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It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; But in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted.
~Theodore Roosevelt, 1907 Arbor Day Message ~

Nature definitely was trying to tell me something, last Tuesday April 5th. I was reminded too a statement made by Rick McBride last year during the 'Learning the Lifeways' retreat at Herbs & Things...he said, "Sometimes, Nature, if she's not gotten your attention in a subtle way---Will--- get your attention by showing you something out of the ordinary. For example; if you see one turkey in your yard, you'd notice but may not think twice about it. But if there are 100 Turkey's in your yard, you'd notice, thus Nature has your attention and make you wonder what's the message."
And take notice I did, when there were 100's of birds in the back pasture behind the house, in the trees and flying around. Actually kind of all over the place.
There were grackles, redwings, starlings, crows, cowbirds, and a few woodpeckers, doves, chickadee's, juncos, nuthatches, sparrows, titmice, a hawk in the Tree (probably going yum) Robins, and one blue bird. I mean we are talking all at once.
To give you a better perspective of how many of , lets say the Starlings there were, when they took off in a flock I could hear it in the house, with windows closed. So yes Nature got my attention. I searched for information in, Animal Speak and Animal Spirit Guides (which can both be purchased at Herbs & Things--shameless plug:) Haven't put it all together yet, but I'll let you know as soon as I have:)
But according to Rick McBride, after I told him, about all the birds, he said..."This was the Bird Nation not speaking to me as one species but as the Whole Nation. I must look at what Bird Medicine can offer me on a whole, what it's wanting me to see, or maybe where I am, where I am going, what I can accomplish, what it's teaching me, showing me, or letting me in on. Whew...lots of work to be going on...The Whole Bird Nation...What the heck? LOL

Be well
Laugh often
Love large
Dig in the dirt
Grow a garden
and may the sun light your way
Kellie
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