Dear Readers,

Pour yourself some kava or grab a favorite cola, remember a moment’s gratitude for your computer and the chair you are sitting in; breathe, and move with me into a couple of fascinating topics in this newsletter.

I personally designed the new banner you see above. It resembles the one on my new spring web site, too. The banner likens the flow of energies that cause flowers to spring their buds, and cause animals to do things politely noted as frolic about and procreate.

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Nature Knows

Geese encourage and protect their own, and those natural characteristics signal meaningful messages for us humans. I am guessing geese do not meet around the office water cooler for chats about their natural capabilities; geese just go around doing what comes naturally, naturally.

As geese apparently do, stay with your groups of choice. When you share goals and wants with others who embrace similar goals and wants, it is probable you will see intentions manifest closely to what you had imagined. Yours and others’ goals could show up quicker and easier.

Message :: When geese head south for wintering, they easily fly together in wedge shaped formations, which is why a group of geese in flight came to be called a V-wedge. As the front most waterfowl flaps to steer the wedge forward, the stirred air beneath its wings creates a buoyancy for the bird directly behind; flapping wings create a near weightlessness for the birds down either side of the wedge. Uplifts can streamline flights for all versus flapping alone outside the wedge. Make it easy on yourself, regarded reader, and fly with friendly geese.

If you happen to be performing leader-like functions in a group, you might be on top of everything, working hard to help others develop their potential; or, you might get tired, lackadaisical, you might dilly dally, and finally pass the position to someone else. All along, others probably spoke encouraging words, benefited from tasks delegated to them, and touched others in immeasurable, deep ways.

Message :: When the lead goose gets tired, it rotates its position to another goose; no questions are asked, no analyzations are offered; no chats around the water cooler about who’s next. Geese speak the only way they know - they honk at each other. While wedged, the lower ranked geese honk from behind, encouraging the partners in front to maintain their speed and not to diddle around. Gentle reader, we assume honking is only for geese, but you have probably honked like a goose at someone in your life – lord, help ‘em, one and all. Some of our honks might have been good deeds, indeed.

Do you and I have the sense of a goose? Do we boost someone who is having a bad hair, I mean, a bad feather day; nurture someone whose feathers have just been ruffled with some unpleasant news at the doctor’s office; share empathetic moments with the family who lost one of its members in death?

Message :: When a goose is ill, or has been wounded and falls out of the wedge, two geese follow the blighted bird to Earth, and do their best to protect their feathered partner from further harm. The two geese stay with the downed one until it is either able to fly, or has breathed its last. They then launch up into another passing wedge, which helps them catch up with their original group.

Nature knows its awesome creations, and applauds itself by way of us humans who have the awareness and hands to do so. Applaud to your heart’s content.

Language Lingers

I love looking up meanings of words, and observing authors’ and editors’ techniques of stringing words together. I don’t remember another time I have been so cognizant and sensitive to the ranges of words in news broadcasts, in eloquent journalism, in newsletters, and in poetry. Oh, how language lingers in our imaginations and choices - story after story, generation to generation.

Below are some words and phrases that have caused me to cringe for a long time; vast numbers of people casually speak or write them while others use them, out of context, to stimulate levels of fear. Fear is distracting, superficial, and full of fluff; I have written an article about subliminal fear in advertising, and the article is linked to this page. In no particular order, some lingering, unsettling word-pictures begin with…

May we, one and all, stay awake to the
worlds our words create for one another.

Our constant curiosity is key
to watching what’s being created.  ~ DM