Lifestyles of...

We like to feed the birds around the yard.  We have a routine whereby we do a morning feed and often find something in the afternoon for them to have.  It actually extends to feeding a possum at night.
They seem to know the routine and are often waiting for a feed.  Yesterday I was sitting looking out the back and had one come up to me and see if my toe was good to eat.  At other times a bird sits on the back of the chair next to me.  We sagely look around.  Well probably he looks sagely and I look incredulously.
During the storm I saw a bird looking on the ground for food and thought I could learn a thing or two from that bird.  Here I was sitting and concerning myself with the tree fluttering in the breeze and hoping it would not come down while all the while he was under it without a care in the world concentrating on a feed.
I find it incredible how this type of bird knows when it has had enough and stores excess by hiding it.  I do question its method of hiding.  It makes a small hole in the ground and covers the food with leaves.  It does not seem to account for the breeze blowing away the leaves or other watching it and raiding its stash.  Still, what goes around comes around and it looks healthy.
I would never advocate irresponsibility and I know it is up to me to do all to ensure safety for myself and Merril and those around me.  Yet there comes a time when I have done all I know to do and can do.  If I attempt to do more (which is more common than I would like) it is worry.  Worry to my mind is never productive.  When I have done all I can control it is pointless to concern myself about what I cannot control.  To me it is not only pointless it is a waste of time.  There comes a time when I have done all I can just to stand and trust rather than oscillate and worry.
 So seeing a bird happily feeding was a lesson to me.  I reckon there are lessons all around me.  The tv promotes “Lifestyles of the rich and famous.”  I  believe there are lessons to be learned there, just as I believe there are lessons to be learned from the “lifestyles of birds” or “lifestyles of ants” or “lifestyles of gardening”.  I reckon there are lessons all around when I am open to it.