Weekend Coffee Share...sing like the birds

Hello friends, grab your drink of choice and join me for another weekend coffee share. What do you want to talk about? I have been LOVING visiting everyone else. I thoroughly enjoy reading and learning about your lives. Sometimes it takes me awhile but I do try to get to everyone's posts. 

The weather here in Washington state has been beautiful this week. Chilly mornings and evenings and warm days. Blue skies. I love it. This morning (Friday) my hubby and I went on a walk instead of working out inside. It was brisk, the sky was blue, the birds and a few frogs were singing. I love hearing the birds sing, and frogs too, it is one of my favorite sounds. When we visited Texas last month I heard a Cardinal for the first time in MANY years. We don't have them in the NW and they are one of my favorite birds. If we were having coffee I'd ask what your favorite bird is? 

As I was walking, listening to the different sounds, it reminded me of us, as humans. We are all different, we all have our own unique "sound", each with our own purpose, our own look. Even the loud, obnoxious crows, have a purpose...haha (I'll have to look up what it is)! The other thing that struck me, was how beautiful these birds sounded together....and yes, as we walked, there was a crow in all his or her obnoxiousness, but it fit. Oh, and let's not forget the woodpecker, that sounded fine on the tree, but OH LORD when he comes pecking on my gutters, it's another story. Each bird with their own sound, just doing their thing, singing together, eating breakfast or whatever it is they're doing. 

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song" Chinese Proverb

Yes, there are some birds who are kind of bullies and don't play nice with the other birds, there are those we rarely see because they're kind of timid and afraid, there are those that we seem to be in awe of (insert bald eagle), those that are entertaining, those who seem brave and not afraid of anything, those that we can handle for a little while and then...please go away (insert crows or woodpeckers on the gutter). BUT they all have a place, they were not created by accident. Isn't it amazing the difference in the atmosphere when the birds start singing. Yet there are people who find it highly annoying. I love it.

Now unlike birds (though I'm not an expert), we humans can grow and change. We don't have to remain a bully, or timid and scared. We don't have to stay where we are (mentally and emotionally). We also don't have to shape shift to fit into someone else's mold or ideal or belief system, yet at the same time, it is totally okay and right to become more compassionate, more understanding, more willing to listen and learn and have conversations, even hard ones (I'm learning this one). It's okay to get rid of old, bad habits, negative thought processes that haven't served us well.

We're daily bombarded with so much information, probably more than we need to take in to remain in a healthy place. We don't realize how influenced we are by what is thrown at us, from all directions on any given subject. We often miss how biased the information we receive, can be (on all sides and subjects). We forget that money is being made at our expense. Pretty soon we start to believe everything we hear and everyone who thinks different becomes an enemy. We become confused, and it all begins to take a toll. I might not agree with someone's choices or lifestyle, but that doesn't mean I need to treat them as less of a human being. Social media has made it so easy to just spew thoughts out there without regard for anyone else, and relationships are ruined because of it. We lose sight of the beauty of someone's individuality and unique voice.

This was probably more than I planned to write, but boy, if we were having coffee, I'd want to make you feel worthy and valued and loved, and heard. Even if we disagreed on everything. I'd want to ask you about your life, what you've experienced, maybe we'd avoid certain conversations and that's okay. Maybe we'd just talk about what flowers we're planting this year. Are we having a garden? I am, I'm doing containers, and I just bought 7 bags of potting soil...52 dry quarts worth and boy was it heavy. Moved them to the car and then out of the car. I got my workout! 

I hope everyone has a great weekend and a great week. Take time to listen to nature around you, celebrate it's uniqueness, it's goodness, then take time to celebrate people around you and sing loud and proud like the birds!

Check out all the other posts on Weekend Coffee Share, hosted by Natalie the Explorer. I'm off to go visit some now. #weekendcoffeeshare

With Joy Unquenchable,

Kirstin