After 30 years of coming to this beautiful beach, this is the first year I've encountered dead birds along the shore. We saw several of them this morning and my heart just sank. :(
I'm wondering if this is a due to the BP oil spill or if its our other contributions to tearing apart our earth....
It may be ironic but my beach read this trio is The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff, in which a good deal of Taoist wisdom is revealed through the character and actions of A.A. Milne's Piglet.
In the first section, Hoff refers to the Age of Perfect Virtue, in which he says, "men lived among the animals and birds as members of one large family. There were no distinctions between "superior" and "inferior" to separate one man or species from another. All retained their natural Virtue and lived in the state of pure simplicity...living in harmony with themselves, each other, and the world, their actions left no trace, and so we have no physical record of their existence."
Reading Benjamin Hoff and seeing these wonderful creatures lying lifeless on the beach, only brings the same question rolling over and over in my mind, "what have we done?"
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