A Birds Eye View

Deep Ecology, Ethics & Whole Community | February 25, 2010

The corner of my eye caught motion. I looked up and saw a dark bird flying acrosss the gray morning sky clearly heading somewhere with intent. Perhaps she had a memory of where she last found food. She didn’t have access to a grocery store, or anyone other than herself to depend on for survival. Maybe she remembered where she found food yesterday, or last week. I wondered what she was experiencing – the cold winter sky; breathing in fresh moist air as she flew, the wind across her wings, an urgent hunger in her belly critical to fill before she got too weak to search.  What was it like for her to look down on the trees and sagebrush below, the mountains ahead; to fly between mist and sun? So many points of experience happening all the time, the world interconnected in a web of personal experience. Our own is one of them, enriched by glimpses into others.

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