Now we see through a glass darkly

Now we see through a glass darkly
Helen Keller and her mother exemplified in the Miracle Worker

Saturday, July 7, 2012

I saw a hummingbird!

Of Course, he was over at Obie's house.  I don't know what it is about that baby that makes the birds so excited. 
It looked like the hummingbird was following a queenbee, into the best rose.
The queenbee was flitting from flower to flower and the hummingbird waited for a hot second for the queenbee to finish with her third or fourth pollenation and then swiftly took a drink and hovered a bit and then flitted away.  
Time seems sped up for the hummingbird, in comparison to the bees.  I have seen hummingbirds before, but never so swiftly.
Life is a quick observation like that.   What a quick and fleeting thrill it was to see.   I couldn't go get anyone to watch it with me.  It symbolized what is going on in the house, I imagine.  The swift thrill of watching babyhood become toddlerhood, is as swift as that hummingbird and only the mommy and daddy are enjoying the thrill of the beauty.  Everybody else just enjoys the flowers when they bloom.

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