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Bluebird of Happiness?

by | Mar 29, 2012 | Blog

 

As I pulled down my driveway last Friday a flash of brilliant blue caught my eye.  My focus followed the flash and within seconds I recognized it as an Eastern Bluebird.  What joy flooded my being! What was it about this vivaciously colored songbird that brought me such joy and hope as a harbinger of happiness?

The Eastern Bluebird is considered fairly common in the Northeast although this was perhaps the fifth time in the six decades of my life that I have had the pleasure of one’s company, however fleeting!  Their range is from the Rocky Mountains east, an enormous area.  Their favorite habitat is the forest edge, where forest meets farm and field.  This may help to explain why I haven’t seen them very often.  It has been many moons since my area of New Jersey has been rich in edge of forest habitat.  Bluebirds eat small fruits and hunt insects, spiders, and other creatures from above so technically they are predators.  The perch, watch, and then swoop to the ground to pounce on their prey.

From where did this connection between happiness and Bluebird that arose in my mind/body arise?  First of all, there is the beauty and surprise of seeing a quickly moving object of brilliant blue flash by.  As I consider the color of a Bluebird I am not recalling many instances of naturally occurring living beings this color, at least not in our ecosystem.  There are blue skies, precious and semiprecious gems, bodies of water, pigments, certain flowers, tropical butterflies, common blue damselflies, blue lobsters (occur one in a million), blue poison dart frogs, Hyacinth Macaws, and even a blue human being,  59-year-old Paul Karason  who apparently has blued himself unintentionally by ingesting colloidal silver in solution as a health tonic! So simply seeing a brilliantly azure being here in my mid-Atlantic mixed hardwood habitat is a treat!

Then there is the mythology of the bluebird of happiness that that reaches back thousands of years.  Bluebirds are a widely accepted symbol of cheerfulness, happiness, prosperity, hearth and home, good health, new births, and the renewal of springtime.   In magical symbolism, bluebirds are used to represent confidence in the positive aspect and egotism in the negative.. [1]

Finally there is the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” from the Wizard of Oz.  Since childhood this has always been one of my favorite songs.  It associates Bluebirds with a land where beauty, kindness, and love are the norm.  Wherever it came from, that Bluebird crossed my vision and my heart quickened with joy and appreciation.  I felt a change in my internal landscape and a refreshing of the screen of my mind that is lasting for days.  May a Bluebird cross your path soon and may we all be open to the miraculous quality of our natural world, wherever it may waken us!


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebird_of_happiness

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Emotional Tsunamis

by | Mar 27, 2012 | Blog

 

Sometimes an enormous emotional wave floods our experience.  It may be an unanticipated and prolonged illness of a loved one, an individual we placed our trust in that acted differently than we had anticipated, unhinging our sense of security in the world and cracking a primary relationship, a loss of a job in a global financial meltdown or a self-limiting local meltdown that changes our lifestyle and our dreams in the present, an accident that alters our destiny.

These situations come with little warning, or warnings we were too inexperienced to read accurately. We find ourselves clinging on to whatever remains solid, staying above the emotional tsunami with all our strength while swimming consciously towards solid ground. We stay afloat.  We practice lifesaving for those we care about inundated by the same wave. We swim and cling and find ourselves and our loved ones whole or perhaps less than whole yet on solid ground.  The waters have receded.  We are all here, or maybe one or more of us didn’t make it.

We look around and take our bearings.  The wave is gone.  There is relief.  We fall to the ground. Our emotional arms and legs are exhausted.  We found opportunity in the current, the flotsam and jetsam.   We maneuvered powerfully and discover that now our ability to move is temporarily absent.  Our energy is exhausted.  We look around.  Many of the pursuits we were engaged in prior to the tsunami have been swept away by the receding waters and scattered by the winds.  The work of gathering what remains and creating anew awaits us.

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If we allow this time for recharging we will build anew.  We will collect the pieces we desire to create as we are able.  This is practicing wellness, commitment, and vision.  Congratulations.