Being out on the play ground for a few hours a couple times a week offers me the chance to have some time with my thoughts. 
(Especially when the kids are minding their manners.) One of the things lately consuming my thoughts have been the swallows and right now they are all over our playground. Every spring the swallows start hunting the bees that are collecting pollen from the flowers. These birds are wicked fast, swoop down to the grass and then dash off again into the air. They have to be fast because there is bigger prey such as the hawk out there, waiting for a a tasty winged creature to loose focus. The other day I saw a swallow being carried inside a hawks clutches as he flew through the air. Amazing! Nature is amazing! I'm often surprised by the pure intense actions and behavior in nature but then I'm constantly being amazed by the actions in human nature as well and this is really what this post is about. Sure we are not hunted and carried off by bigger prey, nor do we have to swoop in really quickly to sneak up on our dinner in order to catch it off guard. We are however, intense in our actions and behaviors. I had the opportunity to sit with a fellow parent in the staff lounge the other day and discuss this very topic. Yes, we used different words to relate our actions but in reality we were discussing the very same topic of swallow behavior, only human. There have been crazy, "intense" going ons at our school lately and while they go on, I've realized, so do others lives. This sweet, fellow parent shared with me a rather sad tale of her son and his battles with cancer & chemo therapy. They've been on this flight path since April. I got wondering, does that make her the bee or the hawk or the flower or does she fit into this particular circle of (school) life at all? Does anyone outside of the effected people fit into that circle or is that their very own circle of life? I wonder how many of us are trying to fit into that particular circle of life but really we are the ant just trying to act like the bee or in some cases the ant trying to act like a hawk! I'm not trying to call anyone a pee-on but that is something I see in human nature and not out in the skies above the playground where the swallows fly unless you consider the roar of a lion or spread of peacock feathers! I guess we're not so different after all. (sorry kinda got off on a little tangent there, back to the post) I need to remember (and try to figure out) who I am in this circle of life; whether it be in the fore mentioned (school) circle or my own and whether they even merge like a bee who is just gathering pollen and gets stuck fighting to flee the swallows or the swallow stuck between hunting bees and being the hunted prey or lastly the lowly ant who isn't even a part of that circle at all but because they are in the grass they rub shoulders with the rest of nature. I'm beginning to see how much I am either the flower or the ant, however, I'm still not sure which and with all that's happened I could care less as long as I'm not the bee or the swallow! I don't want to be the hawk either because that's just way too big for my britches! I'm happy being the flower, and after all this time in my thoughts I've decided to focus my attention on solely being the flower because after all, I certainly wouldn't want to loose my focus! (Did you follow all that?)
(Especially when the kids are minding their manners.) One of the things lately consuming my thoughts have been the swallows and right now they are all over our playground. Every spring the swallows start hunting the bees that are collecting pollen from the flowers. These birds are wicked fast, swoop down to the grass and then dash off again into the air. They have to be fast because there is bigger prey such as the hawk out there, waiting for a a tasty winged creature to loose focus. The other day I saw a swallow being carried inside a hawks clutches as he flew through the air. Amazing! Nature is amazing! I'm often surprised by the pure intense actions and behavior in nature but then I'm constantly being amazed by the actions in human nature as well and this is really what this post is about. Sure we are not hunted and carried off by bigger prey, nor do we have to swoop in really quickly to sneak up on our dinner in order to catch it off guard. We are however, intense in our actions and behaviors. I had the opportunity to sit with a fellow parent in the staff lounge the other day and discuss this very topic. Yes, we used different words to relate our actions but in reality we were discussing the very same topic of swallow behavior, only human. There have been crazy, "intense" going ons at our school lately and while they go on, I've realized, so do others lives. This sweet, fellow parent shared with me a rather sad tale of her son and his battles with cancer & chemo therapy. They've been on this flight path since April. I got wondering, does that make her the bee or the hawk or the flower or does she fit into this particular circle of (school) life at all? Does anyone outside of the effected people fit into that circle or is that their very own circle of life? I wonder how many of us are trying to fit into that particular circle of life but really we are the ant just trying to act like the bee or in some cases the ant trying to act like a hawk! I'm not trying to call anyone a pee-on but that is something I see in human nature and not out in the skies above the playground where the swallows fly unless you consider the roar of a lion or spread of peacock feathers! I guess we're not so different after all. (sorry kinda got off on a little tangent there, back to the post) I need to remember (and try to figure out) who I am in this circle of life; whether it be in the fore mentioned (school) circle or my own and whether they even merge like a bee who is just gathering pollen and gets stuck fighting to flee the swallows or the swallow stuck between hunting bees and being the hunted prey or lastly the lowly ant who isn't even a part of that circle at all but because they are in the grass they rub shoulders with the rest of nature. I'm beginning to see how much I am either the flower or the ant, however, I'm still not sure which and with all that's happened I could care less as long as I'm not the bee or the swallow! I don't want to be the hawk either because that's just way too big for my britches! I'm happy being the flower, and after all this time in my thoughts I've decided to focus my attention on solely being the flower because after all, I certainly wouldn't want to loose my focus! (Did you follow all that?)
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I am not following. Did I miss something? What happened?
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