startled birds
by Elouise
startled birds swerve
surfing updrafts and downdrafts —
thick tree trunks sway
As seen early this morning. Birds and trees dealing with a turbulent, invisible ocean of air.
I’m looking out a window in our heated house, wondering whether I could survive outdoors. It’s hard enough to survive inside.
Life is turbulent. It isn’t easy to surf icy blasts of unexpected change and disorientation. Witness the last few weeks and years, with more to come.
Sometimes I wish I were more like birds riding updrafts and downdrafts, swerving and turning with the wind. Or like huge tree trunks that sway precariously, yet survive virtually unscathed.
Then again, maybe they figured it out ages ago, and have tried for decades to show me how it’s done. I think I’m beginning to catch on, though it still takes my breath away.
© Elouise Renich Fraser, 13 December 2017
Photo found at pinterest.com
Oh yeah, but that’s okay. That’s coool, as the trees might say. There’s no hurry. I love this image. xx 🙂
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Thanks, Fran! 🙂
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I wonder where birds go to die………….
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Let me know if you find out………
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I think you are like huge tree trunks that sway precariously, yet survive because you are grounded in faith and the love of God.
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Thank you, Waldo. I don’t know what I would do without you and so many other huge tree trunks cheering me on. And yes, “faith and the love of God.”
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I think you’ve survived well. You even seem to duck the blasts from LBofB.
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🙂 Thanks, John! I take this as a high compliment. Conversation with him like playing ping pong, don’t you think? He’s always ready with slam-dunk killer counterpunch…which probably helps him survive as well. Strange world, isn’t it?
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