I needed to read this. Not only was it beautiful to imagine the birds outside your home engaging in this story, but very relevant to my life at this moment. I have an adult child that is still finding himself and I feel like the parent bird fluttering in anxiety for his inability to fully fly. I try to stay back, still be present, and act only if he truly needs me, but it is hard. No one explains how parenting seems to go way beyond the legal age of 18, like I was taught to believe. The reality is much different. Thanks for allowing me to realize it is not just humans that deal with this- it is a part of nature itself.
What thoughtful analogies to that precarious process of balancing autonomy with dependency!
I needed to read this. Not only was it beautiful to imagine the birds outside your home engaging in this story, but very relevant to my life at this moment. I have an adult child that is still finding himself and I feel like the parent bird fluttering in anxiety for his inability to fully fly. I try to stay back, still be present, and act only if he truly needs me, but it is hard. No one explains how parenting seems to go way beyond the legal age of 18, like I was taught to believe. The reality is much different. Thanks for allowing me to realize it is not just humans that deal with this- it is a part of nature itself.
Beautiful!
Beautifully written and a timely message as our last little bird leaves the nest for college this Fall!