I had a moment of enlightenment/nirvana that was quite nice yesterday amidst all the suffering/dukka I've been going through lately. I wrote about it in ![[personal profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jjhunter 's most recent How Are You? (in haiku) post, but felt it deserved its own space as well.
The poetic version:
arose from child's pose
quest complete: a pair of bluebirds
found a home in mine
bonus prize: cedar waxwings
bathing, my eyes shedding years
The prose version:
I'd just been doing some yoga for back pain, because hello moon, and generally enjoying the poses. We finished in child's pose, but the blanket prop I had was digging into my stomach so I came out of the pose early (rolling up my spine of course!) I looked up to see - bluebirds! In my yard!
I'd seen four of them right after Hurricane Sandy, but wasn't sure if they were in the area or if they had blown there because of the storm. My mom and dad had seen one or two periodically, but I hand't seen any. Then there were two - a male and female. So now we are definitely getting a bluebird house (and maybe there will be babies!) Before we moved to this house, I had never seen a bluebird. I have done a lot of hiking and outdoorsy stuff, but I guess not in the right habitats? Anyway, their populations are slowly recovering...so it was pretty exciting for me. They're gorgeous birds.
Potentially even more exciting, or just as exciting, is that we then saw four cedar waxwings. They are really pretty birds, and I've never seen them before yesterday. They all came to our birdbath (which is apparently very popular on the bird network) and hung out for a bit.
So now I've got to start recording for Cornell Ornithology lab again, obviously. Because those were just the two omg-exciting species. There were red-bellied woodpeckers and nuthatches and more juncos than I could count...chickadees, goldfinches, a Robin, a little downy woodpecker female.
It was so nice, it really took me out of myself. I felt like a little kid at Xmas.
ETA: And yes, I did cheat and make it a tanka. :P
jjhunter 's most recent How Are You? (in haiku) post, but felt it deserved its own space as well.The poetic version:
arose from child's pose
quest complete: a pair of bluebirds
found a home in mine
bonus prize: cedar waxwings
bathing, my eyes shedding years
The prose version:
I'd just been doing some yoga for back pain, because hello moon, and generally enjoying the poses. We finished in child's pose, but the blanket prop I had was digging into my stomach so I came out of the pose early (rolling up my spine of course!) I looked up to see - bluebirds! In my yard!
I'd seen four of them right after Hurricane Sandy, but wasn't sure if they were in the area or if they had blown there because of the storm. My mom and dad had seen one or two periodically, but I hand't seen any. Then there were two - a male and female. So now we are definitely getting a bluebird house (and maybe there will be babies!) Before we moved to this house, I had never seen a bluebird. I have done a lot of hiking and outdoorsy stuff, but I guess not in the right habitats? Anyway, their populations are slowly recovering...so it was pretty exciting for me. They're gorgeous birds.
Potentially even more exciting, or just as exciting, is that we then saw four cedar waxwings. They are really pretty birds, and I've never seen them before yesterday. They all came to our birdbath (which is apparently very popular on the bird network) and hung out for a bit.
So now I've got to start recording for Cornell Ornithology lab again, obviously. Because those were just the two omg-exciting species. There were red-bellied woodpeckers and nuthatches and more juncos than I could count...chickadees, goldfinches, a Robin, a little downy woodpecker female.
It was so nice, it really took me out of myself. I felt like a little kid at Xmas.
ETA: And yes, I did cheat and make it a tanka. :P
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I didn't realize you were a bird watcher too. :) Lucky you to have bluebirds in your yard; they are my state bird and I hardly ever see them, you know, in my state. I've never had them in my yard but there's a house I walk by frequently that always seems to have them in their yard in summer. They have tons of bird feeders out and I love walking by there. The week we moved in to our house, we had waxwings (I can't remember which type now) in our *storm gutters* eating some kind of vegetation growing in there. LOL I haven't seen them since though. I've made my yard a crow haven this winter and since they are one of my favorite birds, I had a great time the other day watching 20 of them in the yard vying with squirrels for peanuts.
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I would happily read about crow hijinks if you posted about them sometime. :D
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I like cedar waxwings a lot, I don't see them in my yard but see them around on walks I go on and stuff not far. they're so neat.
we don't have bluebirds here in the west (we do have blue birds of various sorts, our provincial bird is blue even) but I remember them from the east, though not often since I so frequently lived in big-city locations. anyway anybody (anybirdy?) blue is always sort of amazingly wonderful, I feel.
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