Recovery: listening to owls
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Recovery: listening to owls
Meditation, prayer, mindfulness.
I had no idea how fun, healing and transformative recovery could be.
The past week I've become very aware of great horned owls who are a part of my new neighborhood in a city. Their gentle, persistent calls often carry through my open window as I wake.
https://www.audubon.org/news/learn-i...ls-their-calls
Today I woke, distracted by life and messes around me. I cleaned. I slowed down. I decided to meditate.
In the meditation, thoughts and feelings of my past home, far out in the country, came to me. It's been almost 4 years since we left there, under much stress of no longer being able to ignore the devastation of how advanced alcoholism and mental illness had up-set our lives. They had severely affected my thought processes and physical health. I was in survival mode.
Somehow, this morning, there is a reconnecting and healing between this day and those past times.
The North American great horned owl's lilting call speaks to me. Of hope. Of peace. Of new understanding.
For many years, a family of these owls nested in a grand tree in front of our home. Our family enjoyed time together observing their family, often as we snuggled in blankets on our rooftop, outside bedroom windows.
Giving thanks today for owls, families, healing and inner peace. Thank you, God/Universe/Great Spirit.
"Owl spirit has the ability to unmask and see what is truly beneath the surface."
My heart is feeling this in new ways.
I had no idea how fun, healing and transformative recovery could be.
The past week I've become very aware of great horned owls who are a part of my new neighborhood in a city. Their gentle, persistent calls often carry through my open window as I wake.
https://www.audubon.org/news/learn-i...ls-their-calls
Today I woke, distracted by life and messes around me. I cleaned. I slowed down. I decided to meditate.
In the meditation, thoughts and feelings of my past home, far out in the country, came to me. It's been almost 4 years since we left there, under much stress of no longer being able to ignore the devastation of how advanced alcoholism and mental illness had up-set our lives. They had severely affected my thought processes and physical health. I was in survival mode.
Somehow, this morning, there is a reconnecting and healing between this day and those past times.
The North American great horned owl's lilting call speaks to me. Of hope. Of peace. Of new understanding.
For many years, a family of these owls nested in a grand tree in front of our home. Our family enjoyed time together observing their family, often as we snuggled in blankets on our rooftop, outside bedroom windows.
Giving thanks today for owls, families, healing and inner peace. Thank you, God/Universe/Great Spirit.
"Owl spirit has the ability to unmask and see what is truly beneath the surface."
My heart is feeling this in new ways.
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Join Date: Jul 2016
Location: Wareham, Mass
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We had a pair of great horned owls living in the woods behind our house when we lived in Pennsylvania.
I used to hear them calling to each other as they hunted.
There is a great slim volume , The Owl Papers, by Jonathan Evan Maslow, that is a lovely tribute to owls.
It is out of print, but available on, of course, Amazon.
I used to hear them calling to each other as they hunted.
There is a great slim volume , The Owl Papers, by Jonathan Evan Maslow, that is a lovely tribute to owls.
It is out of print, but available on, of course, Amazon.
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Join Date: Oct 2017
Posts: 497
We have an owl here. I haven't seen it, but I first heard it about a month ago. I woke up at like 3:45 and heard it outside. I sat outside in the dark and just listened to it. This morning I was outside at 4am waiting for the birds to wake up. It's relaxing
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Location: Baton Rouge, La.
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I really enjoy reading your post Mango.
They are very enlightening and uplifting.
Thank You...!!!!!
We don't have any owls down here in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
At least none
that I know of. However, we do have
several species of Woodpeckers that
come to our feeders during the day.
The male with a distinctive bright vivid
dark red head, white belly and black feathers
and the female not so colorful to stay safe
from predators.
They do make their own sounds that
let us know they are nearby and ready
to come visit us.
We do love our wildlife, flowers, and
critters down here in the south.
They are very enlightening and uplifting.
Thank You...!!!!!
We don't have any owls down here in
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
At least nonethat I know of. However, we do have
several species of Woodpeckers that
come to our feeders during the day.
The male with a distinctive bright vivid
dark red head, white belly and black feathers
and the female not so colorful to stay safe
from predators.
They do make their own sounds that
let us know they are nearby and ready
to come visit us.
We do love our wildlife, flowers, and
critters down here in the south.
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