{"id":2768,"date":"2009-04-29T16:49:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2009-04-29T16:49:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:49:29","slug":"cardinal-nest-update-what-story-do-you-tell-about-your-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/cardinal-nest-update-what-story-do-you-tell-about-your-life-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal nest update; what story do you tell about your life?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday April 29, 2009.\u00a0 I goofed.\u00a0 I made this post before I left for Ocala this morning and thought I published it and find I did not.\u00a0 Sorry about that, here it is.<\/em> Well, no Facebook posts for you today. Yesterday I took it easy and stayed in my bedroom for most of the morning.\u00a0 I typically fall asleep in the chair in the living room, proof reading.\u00a0 It’s kind of uncomfortable, which is the point.\u00a0 I don’t keep a recliner or comfortable couch in there because I don’t want to become a couch potato.\u00a0 I usually get up after a few hours and wander into my bedroom about 3am for another hour or two of sleep before I get into my day.\u00a0 This time I wheeled the laptop (it’s on a rolling hospital tray) into the bedroom with me.\u00a0 My room stays nice and pitch dark, which is very healing and restful to me.\u00a0 As soon as I walk into the other parts of the house, there is lots of sunlight, which wakes me right up.\u00a0 So I wanted to stay in a restful mood as long as I could. It reminds me of when I used to travel so much.\u00a0 I would get the best rest at hotels, since the rooms get real cold and dark, perfect for sleeping.\u00a0 Half my time in a hotel room is always spent at the laptop working in the middle of the night.\u00a0 So when I have the laptop in my bedroom at home, it has a bit of a vacationy, out of town feel to it. <\/p>\n

I wasn’t even going to write this, since I don’t like bringing people’s attention to anything less than happy or up.\u00a0 No matter that something is a fact of life.\u00a0 A couple of times this week I’d noticed yard snakes just a little too close to the cardinal nest.\u00a0 Living in a wooded area, there is lots of wildlife here and snakes are part of that.\u00a0 I’m used to it.\u00a0 They don’t freak me out.\u00a0 They are harmless for the most part, in fact I’ve never seen a poisonous snake on my property, ever.\u00a0 I usually let the snakes go when the cats bring them in the house or corner them outside.\u00a0 But I killed three snakes this week.\u00a0 I wrote about two of them in Facebook.\u00a0 I think I was feeling a little too proud of myself, and vibrating there too long.\u00a0 When I got up yesterday, the nest had been disturbed, and the cardinal family was gone.<\/p>\n

The nest was not completely destroyed, but it was empty and in disarray.\u00a0 The hatchlings usually fly in 10 days, and they were only 6 days old but had most of their feathers.\u00a0 I later saw the mama and papa cardinal out at the bird bath, and could hear them in the east woods.\u00a0 My story is that they moved the nest.\u00a0 It’s possible that is what happened.\u00a0 Either way, it’s just the cycle of life.<\/p>\n

A couple of people asked on Facebook about the nest, and I told them the story as I see it.\u00a0 Maybe they did not move the nest.\u00a0 Maybe that is not the truth.\u00a0 But it’s the story that makes me feel better.\u00a0 It is a story that doesn’t make anyone go “Ewwwww, gross!” and have thoughts and visions in their mind of things they do not want to happen to them or anyone they know.\u00a0 It’s a story that lets others play over and over again in their minds a happy scene of a happy life.<\/p>\n

And that’s my story across the board.\u00a0 I have a happy life, and when things like this happen, they happen.\u00a0 It is what it is.\u00a0 But I don’t have to recount every sad or violent thing that happens to me when I talk to others.\u00a0 The story I tell to others reflects just how I see my world.<\/p>\n

I don’t see the world as predatory and scary.\u00a0 I see the world as a welcoming and loving place, full of opportunity.\u00a0 As a well stocked kitchen, as Abraham-Hicks <\/a>says, with everything in it that I need to create a beautiful and fulfilling life. \u00a0 Do scary things happen?<\/em> Sure.\u00a0 Do predators exist?<\/em> Sure.\u00a0 But that doesn’t have to be my focus.\u00a0 I don’t need to continue to talk about those things and lament them and grieve over them and draw everyone else into the chain of pain.<\/p>\n

My story is that life is good and fun and full of opportunity.\u00a0 My story is that I live a happy life with great friends and family and fulfilling activities.\u00a0 My story is that I have all I need and am always receiving more and more.\u00a0 And it’s not just a story.\u00a0 It’s really my life.\u00a0 Do bumps happen? <\/em>Sure.\u00a0 Are they the norm?<\/em> Not by any means.<\/p>\n

A few months ago I began sending out a newsletter, and got an email from a very critical friend about “what a nightmare” the format was.\u00a0 I asked him for a remedy and he said simply “you just plain have to learn how to do this.<\/em>”\u00a0 Ken does not understand law of attraction, and went on to say, “As long as you keep peddling new-age snake oil the deities of rationality and common sense will continue to screw up your efforts.<\/em>” I guess I don’t see a goofy looking newsletter as screwing up my efforts.\u00a0\u00a0 That may be what he sees.\u00a0 I’m always into content over form, though.\u00a0 When I see someone’s newsletter and it’s obviously not professionally and technically perfect, I could really care less.\u00a0 I look to see what they are saying to me.\u00a0 I look to see what the message is they are trying to get across to me.\u00a0 I look for their story behind the appearance of it all.<\/p>\n

Is my way better? <\/em> No.\u00a0 Does my way make people feel at ease and let them know I understand them, or are trying to? <\/em> Yes.\u00a0 And that’s my point.\u00a0 I, too, used to be that cynical, smart ass, sarcastic person that took pride in one-upping anyone I imagined myself to be smarter than, better than, more (fill in the blank) than.\u00a0 And now?\u00a0 Now I realize what it’s all about.\u00a0 Now I realize we’re all in this together.\u00a0 Now I do my best to help make everyone’s life a little easier.<\/p>\n

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.<\/p>\n

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