Two Wild Geese

Blog, Deep Ecology, Ethics & Whole Community | March 31, 2010

The delicate long-legged killdeer are back, flitting through the air with their haunting cries. The ground is still frozen under two feet of snow, but life, sensing the change in light, Life, is stirring. Excited. Getting ready for its ecstatic push for spring. I look up to the skies, my eyes caught by movement. In the whole huge empty western sky there are two geese flying close together in perfect unison, one unit. Two small life forms in exquisite harmony. It is music and dance and poetry. Why are they so close together? How do they stay in such perfect unison? What are they feeling? Perhaps the joy of being in such harmony with another of your kind; a completion that comes with a mate, with male and female energy combined? They emanate such joy; bursting with the anticipation of making new life. There is nothing more deeply exciting.
There is fascination and beauty in anything suffused with the life force, all of it leading in to the mystery of life. From an ant finding its way back to it’s colony, to two geese in the sky, to a grizzly bear standing on a hilltop surveying its domain, to the passion of a wolf pack adoring its pups, what joy, wonder, richness we are bathed in!!!

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