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I understand bees and other insects view the world in a much different way than humans. However I can't help but see the center of every flower as a landing pad for exploration.

Anyone with a knowledge of Tolkien books will understand this.

We’re coming to understand this incredible intelligence. Silence is God’s language. If you just be silent you pick up by osmosis God’s attitude We’re dealing with an infinite intelligence that is totally penetrated by a love that is probably inconceivable to us. And its coming to understand the stages of this love that are available to human beings that is the work of contemplation. It’s not just a method of prayer. In fact, it goes beyond all methods. It’s a relationship hence, it has a spontaneity that begins perhaps first in prayer for most people, then begins to weave its way into all kinds of activity that seem most trivial. One begins to see that God is in everything, and perceive the goodness of everything for that very reason. And as this forms, you feel a deeper silence that might be called spaciousness. There’s nothing, except a certain vibrancy and aliveness You’re awake!! But awake to what, you don’t know. But you’re awake to something that is absolutely marvelous and totally generous. And manifests itself with increasing tenderness and sweetness and intimacy. So one feels embraced by God interiorly or kissed or held. The divine grace has us looking at life from the perspective of divine wisdom. The only condition is to give consent. To say “Yes”.

-Rising Tide of Silence, Thomas Keating

I understand my family and I were very lucky tourists the day we saw this beauty. First, the trail we wanted to hike was closed because the company only gives night hike tours as far as we could tell upon arrival. There wasn't anyone at reception and there wasn't any information to read about the operation hours of the trail.

 

However, as luck was on our side, an employee stopped by for a moment and we asked if we could hike on our own. So the employee made a call and said yes, we can go and only charged us eight dollars each.

 

During that hike we saw a lot of Blue Morpho butterflies flitting about and other butterflies but I don't know what those were. We also got to watch leaf cutter ants as they marched from the leaves to the ant hill. That ant hill is enormous.

 

Not far into the hike, this guy started calling and of course we followed the calls. He was pretty far up in the tree but I did manage to get a couple of images before he flew out of sight.

 

We mentioned the sighting to a tour guide on a different hike and he stated that people come from all over the world to try and see this bird. However, most of the tourists go home with out even a glimpse of him. The tour guide was excited for us and said like most tourists, he has not seen one except in photographs.

 

So yes indeed, my family and I feel very fortunate for having the opportunity to see and hear this beauty in the wild.

 

May good fortune be with you today and always. Happy snapping.

in order to argue about them ;-)

Pierre-Augustin Caron De Beaumarchais (1732-1799), playwright

 

HGGT! Words Matter! Resist!!

 

cornus, flowering dogwood, our yard, cary, north carolina

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