Food chain. A simple term to title the constant struggle for creatures to consume other biologic’s in the quest for sustainability.

Algae, plankton, fish, birds, humans… A variety indeed of so many creatures dependent on so many creatures.

Humans do and have eaten other humans. Ants eat ants. Birds eat birds. An epic smorgasbord of consume and be consumed.

Yesterday, a small hawk that preys on small prey to include small birds watched me while I watched him sit on an electric wire…hunting. My placement of bird feeders makes it hard on such a hawk whereas if I had placed them in the open, there would be great opportunity for him. But, there are always those opportunities for such a tenacious hunter.

Anyway, the hawk gave me a gift as it took flight; dropping a beautiful feather that spiraled and scattered four dimensions as it traveled.

Normally I grab them out of the air before hitting the ground but this feather needed to complete the chain, binding the sky to the ground, and now it is as it should be… inspirational indeed.
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Walking the surface of water rests the balance of feet and defeat
Life it is said , where there is
beginning
end

At the surface there is up, up to where the clouds never end
At the surface there is down, down below where what can not be seen and never ends
Balance again
static
calm
until the waters roil
and then?

A babies cry be it bird, beast, or man
A fish hatched to swim the surface
A insect formed to be
A plant sprouting
all to try the balance of travel in a waking world
in a way, trying to understand.

And why?
Why try?
Why be?
Maybe because the balance needed is needed as it is hard to stand?

i have journeyed high above the clouds, traveled far, far, far below the lands
Going full circle to places beyond imagination
hearing
feeling
seeing
being
learning
teaching
as to what i am is, it is
of no importance… a body, thought, existence consisting
of Wind.