Gratitude For Small Birds
A bird crapped on my keyboard while I was working on the back deck. A few minutes later, a butterfly dallied close to my face.
It’s easy to be thankful for butterflies. Can you be thankful for crap on your keyboard? I don’t think so. But I’m thankful it was a small bird.
actual lol at the crap being from a small bird, once had an apparently very very large seagull bomb a table I was sitting at, trust me (think dinner plate sized impact) be grateful yours was a small bird.
Hahaha! I’m even more thankful now.
Nailed it in 53 words! Happy Thanksgiving, Dan.
Happy Thanksgiving!
There is always space for gratitude!
I think so.
I laughed out loud when I read the first line in my inbox, and laughed harder at the final line: “thanks for sharing.” Thankful for humor and the gift of laughter. And always thankful for your posts full of insight and wisdom. Happy Thanksgiving, Dan, and the rest of the Leadership Freak community.
Happy Thanksgiving, Dan. Glad you got a laugh.
Love it! Gotta look pretty hard sometimes, but there’s always something to be thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving!
Absolutely. We don’t have to be thankful FOR everything. But even hardships are useful, even if it’s enjoying the good times more. 😉
Good one!! Happy Thanksgiving!!
Happy Thanksgiving, Paul.
Oh crap! A bird’s way of saying, “hello” isn’t so pretty. Loved how you found a way to be grateful even when it’s a crappy situation!
Thank you, Lorraine. Cheers
Furthermore, I’m grateful that your birdie friend did not read any of the Giving Tuesday mailings that will recommend we “Give a bigger gift, leave a bigger impact.”
LOL! Me too!
Perhaps the butterfly only dallied because of the scent of the small bird poo? The Universe conspires FOR us!
I hadn’t thought a butterfly cared about bird leavings. Good one. 🙂
Hi Dan and all,
I love this !! One of the biggest insights for me is to weigh the absence of bad and presence of good (as one defines for oneself) . But the former is SOOO hard to see until disaster strikes. You saw immediately that you dodged something really odious
Happy Thanksgiving to you and all LF community
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I see your point, Cate. When the good follows on the heels of bad, it’s easier to appreciate the good. One of my favorite lessons is “bad is stronger than good.” It takes more intention to appreciate the good. Sometimes it takes work or creativity. Noticing and remembering the bad comes naturally. Happy Thanksgiving to you.
Without your small bird’s contribution I wouldn’t have experienced a brief moment of sitting outside with you — you might not have expressed it but I was transported briefly to a backyard laced by the shadow of sun through bare branches, the smell of fallen leaves, a whisper of a breeze carrying the promise of winter, the flicker of birds, the chatter of squirrels rushing to finish the last round up of harvest. The butterfly was the grace note.
Please don’t talk too loudly and interrupt my moment of peace.
Lovely, Elizabeth. Thank you.
I just absolutely just love that, oh Dan, you have such a way with words and mental imagery. 🙂
Thank you, Imelda. I appreciate a good word.
As I sat beneath a tree
A birdie sent his love to me
As I wiped it from my eye
I thanked the Lord that cows don’t fly
HaHa! Perfect! Thanks, Jennifer.
HILARIOUS! Thank you for that Jennifer.
Knowing that birds have no control of that particular body function helps to see the humour in the circumstance. One can just be thankful that cows don’t fly!