Thursday, January 28, 2010

Brave Bird


The sign says "Do Not Open Windows, Birds Will Peck"

Brave Bird walks fearlessly among the vehicles that slow down around the him. He knows he is in charge in this scene. He feels as if he is the star and this is his show. The vehicles don't belong in his environment, but they are there anyway. He never learned from his mother how to deal with all this odd attention. Brave Bird is just a bird after all, not supposed to be an exhibit in a drive thru safari.

"Its just not right" Brave Bird thinks to himself.

He knows that he is supposed to live among other animals, but these moving metal vehicles, that is not something he is used to or instinctively knows how to deal with.

'TAP' 'TAP' 'TAP' "why you here? what do you want?" Brave Bird thinks as he is tapping on the glass windows of the moving metal vehicles driving by. Total utter confusion enters his mind. "What are these moving things??? Damn, please don't run over my tiny toes."

Day after day, year after year, slowly Brave Bird adapts to his new environment, so unnatural, but his new home. Meantime, millions of moving metal vehicles slowly drive by Brave Bird observing him in what they unnaturally think is his 'natural environment'. The moving metal vehicles weave their way past Brave Bird and through the park and out the exit, and as they exit the park, they move on with their lives and their memories and thoughts about Brave Bird fade quickly.

Brave Bird is still there all this time later, enduring the endless days of the moving metal vehicles that threaten his safety every step he takes, but still he walks by, showing that this is his land, his home, and no matter how many moving metal vehicles almost run him over, he will continue to be Brave Bird regardless.

Thinking experiment


Whenever I go to a library or bookstore, I like to do this little experiment to see what thoughts are floating around in my head. I like to walk around looking at the floor and then I listen to my intuition when to look up at the books on the shelves and I look to see the first word that my eyes focus on. Then keeping that word in mind, I look down and walk some more and then look up when it feels right and glance at the next word my eyes focus on. I keep doing this and then I try to figure out why my eyes focused on those words and not other words. I attempt to put them together in something that seems logical to me. What I get out of this is that it helps me to figure out what my mind is thinking, what words I attract to myself, what words come into my reality. Its amazing and I recommend everyone to try it.