When we appreciate the perfect indifference of the blue jay we can quietly sense the consequent nature. If you have songbird feeders, birdbaths, and suet feeders in your backyard, be prepared for Blue Jays. Proper Identification: ¬ Bluebird: This bird has a size between 5 to 8 inches. This side includes "every living thing - every bird and mammal and reptile and amphibian, every tree and shrub and flower and moss." And more than that: every hill, every river, every star, every galaxy. Process theologians speak of it as the consequent nature of God: that is, the side of God that is lovingly inclusive of, and affected by, the larger community of life.
A horizon, a conscious Love, that appreciates it all and says of the whole “very good.” This horizon is God. We an also trust in a horizon of consciousness that transcends us and that includes the whole of life, ourselves included but not ourselves exclusively. The independence of the blue jay’s concerns from our own, reminds us that we are not the center of things, that there is something more than us that is important to itself. But we can indeed appreciate the indifference of the blue jay and other songbirds as they go about their business in mating season: establishing territory and announcing availability. We need not appreciate the perfect indifference of certain viruses. It is to love what does not include you, precisely because it does not refer back to you and your concerns, including your worries.
BLUE JAY SONGBIRD SERIES
Being at two is to recognize, appreciate, and learn from the perfect indifference of so much of nature to human life. Members of the Songbird series from PanAmerican Seed share a compact habit and large, long-spurred, showy upward-facing flowers. They love to make their nests near coniferous trees, which provide camouflage for the eggs. But surely there is value with being at two with nature. Lazuli Buntings are small songbirds that live in fields and meadows. In the spiritual alphabet "C" is for connection, and we may well be inclined to think of positive connections as a kind of unity with the more than human world.
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