New Age Spirituality Morning Has Been All Night Coming ( Part 16 )
When I awoke it was already daylight. I have a favorite spot where I sit with my first cup of morning coffee. Its in the kitchen,facing the large window that overlooks the woods behind the house. Earlier that year,I had erected a number of bird feeders,and I took pleasure in watching the birds as they enjoyed the seeds Malika and Jonathan set out for them. One bird feeder was suspended from a thin wire stretched out between two giant oak trees. This was an effort in my neverending battle to prevent the relentless squirrels from devouring the entire lot of seed.
Squirrels are relatively intelligent it seems. In spite of all my precautions, they always found a way to get to the feeders. This morning I observed two young squirrels eagerly eyeing the hanging feeder. I could almost feel the intensity of their focus as they mentally calculated distances between the tree and their goal. Finally,one of them jumped,bumped against the feeder and tumbled immediately to the ground.In so doing, he shook some seeds off the feeder,and he and his friend commenced dining on the fallen seeds.They rotated the...