life with Lillian I BIRDS
MESSAGES FROM
a lovely bird makes its nest on my living room chandelier...
I am charmed by this because I know that birds coming into the home spells excellent feng shui. Indeed, birds have been sharing my house for a long time. This started years ago when a pair of mynahs started living in the eaves of my home at the back. Over the years, this has expanded into a Mynah community and we hear them each morning making loud chirpy sounds. They are a noisy and aggressive bunch but I am happy to share my home with them.
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have always known that BIRDS bring opportunities for advancement, that they convey cosmic messages from the Gods, that they even bring wealth and
unexpected developments in one’s life, and I have always rather liked the strident handsome appearance of the Mynahs with their yellow beaks and sharp eyes. T ey feed on the worms in my garden and catch lizards from the walls. T ey also share dog food pellets with my American Goldens. T at they are happily reproducing in
my backyard has brought good fortune and yang chi for us, so I regard them as part of my family. Now a smaller, gentler variety of birds
has started coming to nest in the potted palms that grow profusely in my patios and outdoor verandahs. More recently, we spied several pairs at both the front and sides of my home, but this is the fi rst time a bird has gone so far as to build a nest right inside my living room, on a chandelier no less. T e bird fl ies in and out of the house
using diff erent windows each time. It took a week for the nest to get built, then another week for the egg to be laid… a fortnight later we started seeing the baby bird… it was amazing watching mother bird feed baby bird over a period of ten days. At nights, the baby bird sleeps alone in the nest and early morning the parents return with breakfast, and then lunch and dinner.
fascinated,
And even as we look at them they stare back at us…
oblivious to all the sounds we are making. T eir presence is reassuring and gives us all a warm feeling. I have no doubt they bring goodwill messages from the heavenly Phoenixes, for this past month has been a very special and lovely time for me. I successfully completed a very special Buddhist meditation Retreat with a dozen friends. It was an amazing week for us and I returned home rejuvenated, feeling very light and happy. On the third night after my return,
the baby bird fl ew away with its mother… Birds in general always spell good fortune and when you share your home with birds without you having to keep them in captivity, they always bring some special good fortune. When you cannot have the real thing however, images of birds
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