Indian Cuckoo

Cuculiformes - Cuculidae - Cuculus micropterus (Sewah India)

Sleek and slender gray-and-white cuckoo. Loud, far-carrying song is unique: four hooting notes, often likened to “onemore-boh-tul!” or “crossword-puh-zuhl.” Adult is similar in size and coloration to Oriental, Himalayan, and Common Cuckoos, but note dark eyes and darker back and wings. Juvenile patchy-looking, often showing a whitish crown and collar and white edging to the wing feathers. Favors forests, forest edges, and parklands. Lays its eggs in the nests of a wide range of birds, including magpies, shrikes, and drongos.

(eBird)

 

Silent or vocal, a prize in waiting.

* Simplicity in habit - born of non-interference, non-imposition, non-desire *

- act neutral, allow things to run its course -

To nurse virtue

 

Reason gives life to them

Virtue nurses them.

Concrete things shape them.

Energy completes them.

Therefore the ten thousand things

no one not honors reason and esteems virtue.

Reason's honorableness virtue's esteemableness,

however, no one it commands,

but always they are spontaneous.

Therefore reason gives life to them,

virtue nurses them, raises them,

nurtures them, completes them,

matures them, rears them, protects them,

to give life to but not to own,

to make but not to claim;

to raise but not to rule;

this is called profound virtue.

"Enjoy yourself"

"Go through this world of illusion in free and easy wandering."

 

what compass

the dare, the bold

the dream or the ordinary

a wing away

A recognition, a heart-echo

A recognition, a heart-echo
defined in silence
Silence is not wasted.

Precious

Precious
Nugget 
of appearance.

Getting it
again and again
Precious.

Precious
Taken in
or given out.

Catch a song

Catch a song

Hold a tune

Swing on.