Monday 16 August 2010

Blogging and the dawn chorus

One bird singing can be fascinating and sound quite pretty.  If it's a wren or a robin, so sweet it might bring tears.  If a blackbird or a nightingale, inspirational. 

Not everyone can be a nightingale.  Most birds make a simple tune which they keep repeating.  Some, like the sparrow, produce just a single note.

BUT when you hear all of the different birds at once - hundreds singing together - it's beautiful, uplifting, superb.

It doesn't matter if the separate songs are not great requiems.  It doesn't matter if they're endlessly repeated.  And it doesn't matter if the singers are motivated by self-interest.

What matters is that together they sound glorious, like nature's hymn of praise for life itself.

Well, it strikes me that we bloggers, between us, are celebrating all that it means to be unique human beings.  Our individual experiences, and our particular thoughts about them, are endlessly repeating and reshaping the creative expression of humanity.  Individuality, expressed en masse.

So blog away fellow songbirds.  I sing the song of my life and you sing yours.  Our songs, added together, are giving form to a fresh kind of music.  We are singing at the dawn of a new and astonishing age.

Yay!


Thursday 12 August 2010

yippee


Free as air

Joy is as freely available to us as air.  It is all around us and in us, just like air.

Once we dissolve the mental and emotional blocks constructed since childhood, we are able to feel joy flow through us, inhabit us. 

Let go of fear, let go of anger, jealousy, self-hate.  These are all veils hiding how easily accessible the joy is.  Cut them down, let them fall, let the wind blow the veils away.  We don't need that stuff, we can choose to be without all those fear-based emotions.

Try it.  Don't be surprised if you fly.