Pacific Swallow

  Passeriformes - Hirundinidae - Hirundo javanica (Layang-layang Biasa)

Common swallow of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, often in cities and towns as well as above fields, lakes, and forests. Adult iridescent blue above and grayish buff below, with orangish throat and forehead. Similar to Barn Swallow, which has longer outer tail feathers and a dark line separating the throat and breast, lacking in Pacific. Frequently perches on telephone lines, often with other swallow species.

(eBird)

At ease is where I choose to be, no matter where.

Pacific Swallow

 Passeriformes - Hirundinidae - Hirundo javanica (Layang-layang Biasa)

Common swallow of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, often in cities and towns as well as above fields, lakes, and forests. Adult iridescent blue above and grayish buff below, with orangish throat and forehead. Similar to Barn Swallow, which has longer outer tail feathers and a dark line separating the throat and breast, lacking in Pacific. Frequently perches on telephone lines, often with other swallow species.

(eBird)

Propounding the essential

Faithful words are not pleasant.

Pleasant words are not faithful.

The good ones not dispute.

Who dispute the ones not are good.

The knowing ones not are learned.

The learned ones not know.

The holy man not hoards.

Having thereby worked for others;

he himself the more exceedingly will acquire.

Having thereby given to the people 

he himself the more exceedingly will have plenty.

Heaven's reason benefits but not injures.

The holy man's reason to act but not to quarrel.

What is to you

What is to you is not to me, we are at peace.

 

Catch the light

Catch the light

Catch the shine

It's your dance

Let go.

Familiarity calls

Bird moment:
Familiarity calls
Seek renewal,
Sameness displays
Renewal inspires.

Bird tale

Bird tale:
A journey - 
Know the flows 
and stops,
Have presence.

"Forgive, O Lord ...."

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee

And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.

Robert Frost

"Love brings ecstasy ...."

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... I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness - that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined....

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Bertrand Russell