Little Things in the Big Picture.

There was a blackcap feeding on my bird table today. The blackcap is a small bird that migrates up here from tropical Africa between about April and October, and it was the first migrant I’ve seen this year.

This is what seems to most impress me in life. How ridiculous do the celebrated, shallow icons of our culture appear, strutting their self-importance and flaunting their material wealth, when compared with a little bird that has just made an heroic, three thousand mile journey using nothing but his own energy and navigational skills. And it further seems to me that helping him to build that energy back up is one of life’s worthier endeavours.