Be Like The Bird

"Be like the bird that,
pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight,
feels them give way beneath her,
and sings knowing she hath wings."

Victor Hugo



Pretty good advice. A gentle and trusting way to approach life.

Because the boughs we shoot for, dream boughs, are always too slight and it is rare that we reach the one magic bough that will support us.

The boughs we choose to rest on, the ones that do support us, are the traps, the detours, the lulling, numbing boughs that slip a life away.

The delicate boughs are the ones that keep our souls alive. They are worth taking a chance on. If they give way under the weight of our hopes, it is better to keep moving, to choose another slender chance and give it a try.

Dreams are the substance of  life, the magic of life, the things that lift us above despair.

If we sing and know we have wings, we can keep dreaming.