I like birds

I don’t really study them. I confuse sparrows and wrens and the varieties of each.

I just like them.

It makes me smile when there are a bunch of them sitting on the same power line, facing the same direction, watching the sun set or feeling a storm coming in. I imagine them talking, ‘this is going to be a rough one’, ‘look at the neat cloud formations’, ‘isn’t that breeze nice?’ or ‘I’m hungry’.

When we’re feeding the birds at home, we have the Sparrow Gang. A small group that shows up all at once, bickers and picks at each other and then they all scatter at the same time, responding to some invisible change.

They’re fun to watch. They make me smile. That’s really the only purpose they have for me. They make me smile. There’s nothing wrong with that.

What do you have in your life that is uncomplicated, free, fun and makes you smile?

Spend some time with it and enjoy it. You could use it! We all can.

You can do this.