A friend sent a video of "murmering" a phenomenon of huge groups of birds who hover and move in waves over a small area of landscape. It is fascinating to watch. Mysterious and wonderous.
I thought of how I'd avoided the news on my NYT homepage and opted to play the video of murmering instead. I chose right speech (a friend sharing something going on right now in nature) versus Palin endorsing Trump or a bus tragedy.
I believe these are wholesome choices for me. Something that connects me to the larger world in a way that displays interdependence instead of news that angers me and disturbs my morning. I can do little or nothing with the homepage news. But with the birds I realize this behavior has something to do with searching for food and the enormous grouping protects them from falcons. I can think of the shrinking habitat for birds and dwindling supply of food because of it, and be active and protest our treating the planet as our possession. Species are suffering from our carelessness. And I can experience joy at the birds' intelligent behavior for their own survival. They bonded, different species, to protect each other from a common enemy and find resources. They know they are interdependent. We have yet to learn we are interdependent with them.
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