Nature: Birds

Nature in its Splendor!!

Photography by Laura Putman

Nature never seems to phase me. I am intrigued by nature, all aspects of it. It seems to quiet me by just looking at them engaging in their commune, and with each other: and I will often think, why can't man be serene and peaceful. Throughout the years I have learned to follow their examples, and find time to be quite and enjoy the life around me. I believe it is one way that we can find balance and it is also one of the most luxurious activity to engage in  - it is also very cost effective. You surely will get your (ROI)  Return on Investment.

"I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where you're going, but you know that so long as you spread your wings, the winds will carry you." ~ C. JoyBell C.
 Photography by Laura Putman
She Prepares for Her Flight
 
"For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race." ~ C. JoyBell C.



"It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine."  ~ C. JoyBell C.