WHO ARE YOU?
HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?
AND WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
WHO ARE YOU?
These
are questions that humans often forget to ask their self. In fact, most
humans often forget to ask their SELF anything. Maybe that is because
some humans do not know, yet, that "there" is a difference between their
"self" and their "SELF." For us birds, our self is our bird body, and
our SELF is our Flock!
We
birds have noticed that many humans do not have large flocks like we
do. Our "flock" is what reminds us all if it is time to fly away and
find another place to land. If that place is safe, we can stay in that
place for a very long time.
Fortunately,
our flock also talks to all of us at the same time about the same
thing. Therefore, we birds can feel more safe because we are ALL looking
out for ALL of us at the same time. So, who is the "we?"
"We"
are OUR FLOCK! As a flock we find the safe places where to perch, and
the places that we must all fly away from at the exact same time. Then,
we all gather together again in another safe place. If it is really
safe, we can find our food on the ground. But, sometimes the ground is
NOT safe, so we gather in trees.
Yes,
sometimes we birds "peck" at each other, just like humans peck at each
other. However, we use our beaks and our bird calls and humans use
there words, and they often "peck at each other" as well. Humans seem to
get along with each other sometimes, but sometimes they come from very
different flocks and they cannot get along.
Of
course, us birds have different flocks of different kinds of birds, so
sometimes we get along with the other birds, and sometimes we even fight
with the others birds, usually by pecking at each other. We birds do
notice that humans often "peck at each other," but they use words
instead of beaks.
However,
sometimes humans fight with each other. They do not have wings to fly
away like we do, but they do leave each other when they no longer want
to be together. On thing this differentiations between us birds and
humans, is that most of us have a flock.
On
the other hand, some of us birds like to hunt alone, whereas others
like to hunt with their flock. So, maybe us birds are not that different
from humans. Except, humans do not have the ability to fly unless they
go into one of those big houses in the sky. We birds know to not get in
the way of one of those flying bird nests, as they are very big.
Our
answer is very easy. "We are our Flock. "Why do you humans confuse
yourselves by asking too many question. Being a bird is quite simple.
When we are hungry, we eat! When we are tired, we sleep,
and
when we we allow our "bird instincts" to tell us where we are going,
and how we will get there by following our "bird instincts."
We birds are happy to say that the answer to "Who are you?" is, "We are OUR Flock!
HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?
We
birds have to say that many, in fact far too many, of us birds have
been in what humans call a "fire zone" We birds do NOT like being in a
fire zone, but there are soooo many fires that sometimes we cannot fly
fast enough to get away from what the humans call a "fire."
This
fire, in fact there are many, many, far toooo many fires. Some of us
birds cannot get away fro the fire and those of us who could escape the
fires had to watch some of the members of their flock to "burn up inside
the fire."
This
burning inside the fire is killing many of our flock members, and it is
also burning up many of the wonderful trees that have always been our
homes! Therefore, we birds are feel VERY, VERY SAD. There have been many
humans who have tried to save these trees, as well as the birds that
have lived there, but some of the humans also get too close to the
fires.
We
birds do NOT like the fires. But we have seen that the humans are much
nicer and stronger than we ever thought before. These humans are
gathering in their human flocks and trying to make the big fires get
smaller and smaller. However, just as soon as the fire gets a bit
smaller, something happens to the fire to make it get bigger and bigger.
We
birds, never trusted humans too much, but now we are very happy to have
the humans assist us to keep our nests in our trees. However, some
humans seem to fall down and other humans need to help them because the
fires hurt the humans just like the fire hurt the trees.
Therefore,
we birds, as well as the trees and the humans, have NOT been doing very
well. It has been very difficult and frightening to see our wonderful
forest homes burn down and many of our wonderful forest friend also get
lost in the fires. We see them in the woods, and then, suddenly they
are gone.
We
do not know where the trees, the animals and even some humans have
gone, but we, the members of the forest hope that they will all be fine.
But, we somehow know that many of the forest places where we used to
live, and the forest friends that we used to have are forever gone!
We
see that there are big silver things in the sky that drop down a dust
that is red like the sky that used to be blue, which is now red, or
gray, and everything is dying from the fire. Our forest home is dying
and we can't do anything to stop that. We see hat many humans are
helping us as much as they can.
Some
humans even fly in the sky like huge silver birds, and drop down
something that is like a red power. Some times that works, but sometimes
the birds, the trees, the deers, the rabbits and all of our other
forest friends are dying.
HOW HAVE WE BEEN?
We,
all the members of the forest and the wonderful humans who are helping
to save the forest have not yet been able to stop all the many fires. It
has been very, very, frightening in our forest, and very, very,
dangerous in our forest.
Therefore,
we have been very frightened, sad, and proud of all the brave humans
who have been trying to make the fire go away. But, even the huge silver
birds (planes) that fly fare above us and drop the colored dust, still
cannot make the fire go away.
WHERE ARE WE GOING?
We FEAR we are going away from our forest, maybe forever?
PLEASE DEAR HUMANS,
CAN YOU PLEASE HELP US?