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Flights of Fancy, Wings of Joy
“Walela” (Wah-ley-lah) is the Cherokee name for hummingbird. There is something inside the soul of all of us that wants to soar through sunbeams, then dance midair in a delicate mist, then take a...
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A birthday gift for both of us
Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding. the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as bird wings. –Rumi We celebrated my friend Karin’s birthday last Friday by getting...
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Rarely this happy to be wrong
My heart was heavy when I positioned the stepladder beside the fuchsia plant in which Walela had built her nest. Why had one of the hatchlings died, I fretted, and why hadn’t the mama hummingbird...
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No ordinary eggs, these
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being...
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Finding my voice, and taking wing
In you is all of Heaven Every leaf that falls is given life, in you Each bird that ever sang… will sing again, in you. –A Course in Miracles I’m still reveling in my experiences last week with the...
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And now we are empty nesters
It was still dark this morning when I snicked the front door open. Just a sliver, mind you–I didn’t want to startle the remaining hatchling, but after two solid days of pounding rain and intermittent...
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Present moment, wonderful moment
Breathing in, there is only this moment… On Friday, Walela’s breathing was effortful… Breathing out is a wonderful moment. The first egg in her second clutch. If we are not fully ourselves, Two days...
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Still, life
Still images can be moving and moving images can be still. –Chien-Chi Chang Not long after Walela laid an egg in her remodeled nest, her incubation periods became increasingly erratic. I observed her...
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