Blue-throated Bee-eater

Corasiformes - Meropidae - Merops viridis (Beberek Leher Biru/Berek-berek Rengkung Biru)

A bright green insect hunter with a long bill and triangular starling-like wings. Adult has a bright blue throat, orange-brown crown and nape, and long trailing central tail feathers. Sexes are alike. Juveniles have a paler blue throat, no orange-brown coloration, and no long tail extensions. Often hunts from exposed perches such as telephone lines or snags, on which it rubs its venomous quarry so as to disarm it. Call is a bright, inflected “chileep.”

(eBird)

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."

Direction

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

 

"We do not grow absolutely ...."

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

Anais Nin

"The possession of knowledge ...."

Bird tale
of a juvenile:

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anais Nin

"The possession of knowledge ...."

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Anais Nin

"Age does not protect you from love ...."

Age does not protect you from love.  But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Anais Nin