I was watching this wish bone plant with its fresh flowers in our garden, following the recent rainy season. Just above the plant in the nutmeg tree, a Bulbul was perched looking around!
I noticed another Bulbul in the cable facing the feeding table.
I noticed both of them flying to be perched on the the steel frame of the kennel yard at a distance, yet looking at each other in a beholding manner!
They moved together the feeding table and shared the meal from the same bowl and moved to be perched in another cable in the garden and later on under the foliage of an adjacent tree! They were together in a communicative mood while perched in a branch on the top of a tree!
The courtship for birds begins with friendship!
Our garden is a place where birds meet and move to different levels of social formation!
The language of harmony and intimacy emerges through such relational behaviour!
While we talk about fractured relationships in our homes and society, I feel encouraged what birds communicate in their orientation!
We become ourselves through what we receive and give to others!
On the 79th Independence Day of the Republic of India, I long to experience friendship as the language of heart between people!
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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