I Expect Therefore It's Not...
Yesterday, while reading someone's blog, I came across an interesting entry. A woman was describing how there was a woodpecker on top of her metal chimney. He would just sit there pecking away, making the most distrubing noises. She tried various methods to get him to stop: throwing rocks, shaking, and even thought of firing a gun at the this willful bird. Nothing seemed to make him stop. She ended her story by saying, when is he going to realise that the chimney is metal?
I read that story, paused, and commented to her, rather than waiting for this woodpecker to stop his pecking, maybe you can hearhis sounds as if he is as making unusual music, something of rare beauty and charm, and learn to enjoy it! It is then, I wrote that you could have a quiet mind and peaceful heart.
How often are we annoyed or put off by someone or something because we cannot accept it, him or her as is rather than how we want it or them to be? My lesson for the day: Accept what is. How many times must I be hit over the head to learn this lesson??? Josepf K., please come to the rescue.
Thank you for your mind.
I read that story, paused, and commented to her, rather than waiting for this woodpecker to stop his pecking, maybe you can hearhis sounds as if he is as making unusual music, something of rare beauty and charm, and learn to enjoy it! It is then, I wrote that you could have a quiet mind and peaceful heart.
How often are we annoyed or put off by someone or something because we cannot accept it, him or her as is rather than how we want it or them to be? My lesson for the day: Accept what is. How many times must I be hit over the head to learn this lesson??? Josepf K., please come to the rescue.
Thank you for your mind.
4 Comments:
Isn't it interesting that on any given day, woodpeckers are out there doing what it is that the Creator had designed them to do, and for some it's an irritation, and for others, an opportunity to ponder the plan of the Creator?
The why behind the what!
Patti,
Your wisdom never ceases to amaze me!
Everything is exactly as it is supposed to be...A lesson to be learned and appreciated each and every day.
Thanks, Barbara. It is just that through many wonderful and helpful people in my life, I have come into greater connection and knowledge of my spirit.
That particular behavior is courting. Flickers (Colaptes sp.) do it too. He was trolling for a lady woodpecker. If anything, that woodpecker was grateful to the blogger. She provided him a sounding surface, wonderfully resonant and sharply sonorous in comparison to dull and near-anechoic natural trees. In his addled woodpecker brains (the vibration is only somewhat dampened by skull structure) he was thinking, "Lord God, with a drumming surface like this, I've got the Red Convertible and the Gold Mandala of leks, I'm going to lure me a Pamela Anderson of lady woodpeckers."
There's competition for prime spots like your blogger's. She's not going to get rid of him without muting the chimney or shooting him. They'll usually fledge 2 broods a year: many happy returns.
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