That's Mama with the three Yellow-Crowned Night Heron chicks. So this is what it looks like just before Papa Night-Heron flies in with crab. Notice her equanimity as she sits with various opinions.
I want to remember this.
A resonating thought about that vociferous, likely hungry, chick.
A feeling lasts about 90 seconds, yet our minds can hold it—keep the energy in it moving for hours, days, weeks, years, even decades. I've been experimenting with the hunger feeling. You know, eating too much or when I'm not really hungry. So a hungry feeling comes, and instead of getting that second handful of something, I wait 90 seconds. Yep, the feeling passes just like a wave in the sea. (This waiting or letting it be for 90 seconds works with other feelings, too.) Waiting through the first feeling is pretty easy. Stringing together multiple 90-second feeling visits. Now, that's the real challenge.
Nest #2.
May 29, 2019
