These are two sights of the seven sisters and squirrels at the water bath and food bowl at our garden at Vellore, which we maintained for ten years. When we were saying farewell to our home at Vellore 2 years back, we felt sorry that we would not be able to replenish the food and water every morning anymore. I have pictures of birds and squirrels waiting on the adjacent trees for the replenishment each morning.
The birds and squirrels sometimes fed together . Our friends, who knew a lot about bird behavior found this surprising-co-existence without competition.
One way of reducing the stress of transitions or changes of any sort is to recall pleasant memories. This takes away the stress of loss and brings back hope that a new place or situation will have new memories of equal delight.
It is important to recall the larger canvass of life and fill it with as many details as we possibly can. As humans we tend to drift towards dwelling on our losses ; the way to find the grace to adjust to a change, is to recollect, so that memories will fill the vacuum of a loss. We need the habit of living with memories and gratefully acknowledging all those who added colour to our life. While writing this, I remembered, Shekhar and Ela who helped us immensely to maintain our garden at Vellore. They did it with attention.
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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