I hope you’re having a good day. I hope you find time to make something beautiful. I hope you are kind to yourself and to at least one other being. I hope Life gives you a delightful surprise that warms your heart and renews your spirit.

It’s winter and a storm is raging. Remember, birds collect the blowdown - the broken pieces, dead wood, what’s been ripped away- picking up the pieces, they weave them together to create space for something new to come into being. Millions of us using life force for good.
#bluemonday #nests #birds

The Eagle can teach us how to take a bird’s eye view. Observing. Rising above it. Having patience, poise, until with razor-sharp precision, it’s time to act.

Bald eagle, Skagit County, Wash.

#birds #eagle #nature #natureteaches

Salmon can teach us a lot about knowing when to go with the flow and when to go against the stream as if future lives depended on it.

#bluemonday #blueart #art

Great Blue Heron, fishing PNW.

#blueheron #birds #bluemonday

Lunch to go.

#blueheron #birds #bluemonday

Field notes: Steller’s Jay.
#birds #blue

Good night, America.

Purrrfect.

Nature can tell us a lot about timing and gestation. About keeping things on the down low until conditions are right for something new to emerge. What embryonic idea is calling to be born through you?
#nests #nature #art #constancemears
#newearth #nestart

When it’s time to create (bring something new into the world) even the solitary Heron builds its nest in community, called a heronry. Working together creates mutual support and protection from predators.
#findyourflock #constancemears #birds
#buildcommunity

Birds don’t have permanent leaders. One bird sets off in a direction, and other birds follow. Later, the lead bird drops back and another bird takes the lead for a turn. Sometimes a bird will break from the flock and go where it’s instincts tell it. No bird ever HAS TO follow the lead bird.

Twig by twig, leaf by leaf, create space for something new to be born through you.
#art #constancemears #renewal #birds #nestart

What within you is about to emerge?
#art #constancemears #nestpaintings #birds #transformation

Ground nest of the spotted towhee.

“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.” ~ Alice Walker

#constancemearsart #birdsnest

Imagine that, once a year, your skin turned different colors. Instinctively, you sensed it was time to let go of all but the most essential. You release the past in service to renewal.

"I have come into the world to see this, the swords drop from man's hands, even at the top of their arc of anger, because we have finally realized that there is just one flesh that we can wound.”
~ Hafiz
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