Its easy to get wrapped up in our lives, anxious about all the little things that are like tiny little burrs that make life miserable. I think humans evolved in such a way that they need to take time and just walk in nature. Its been a pretty difficult early spring with the death of my grandmother and Amy's surgery. All is well now but the strain takes a toll.
Today Amy and my son Jeremiah and I visited one of the Little Edens I had written about back in February. The Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center is an urban conservation area and nature center whose purpose is to teach city dwellers about nature. If anyone needs to take time to walk in nature its city dwellers. Life is so hectic and the Discovery Center is a real gem.
We strolled around the area which includes a small pond, larger lake, a prairie and a woodland habitat, in miniature. Highlights of our walk included some American Goldfinches, a beautiful singing House Finch, Norther Cardinals, a flyover by our neighbor the Red-tailed Hawk, a pair of Blue-winged Teal and an American Kestrel.
The Kestrel was having a difficult time of it with a single Blue Jay that objected to its presence, flying at it and trying to drive it off. The Blue Jay was persistent but could not raise any of his companions and thought better than to try and take on the Kestrel. So he flew down into the bushes and continued is verbal harassment of the intruder.
There is life all around and it shines with beauty, grace and awe. The trick is to look beyond the burrs of life to see it.
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