Both these Magpie robins were perched on two branches at a similar height in a tree near the feeding table, at sunrise today!
The Magpie robin in the first photo, turning towards the other Magpie robin in the second photo, began to make short chirps.
The response from the second Magpie robin was instantaneous! It stayed tuned to listen, leaning and looking in the direction of the chirping Magpie robin!
It was a good example of 'active presence and attentive listening' !
This is a form of listening happens when a husband and wife communicate with each other and parents engage in communication with their children.
The body posture and gesture of the chirping Magpie robin changed with the responsive behaviour from the other bird!
What followed was an engaging and exchanging look between them. They flew away together into the wooded part of our garden.
When the communication has a language of intimacy, it can be an experience of communion!
One audit which husband and wife can do is to discern as to how much of communication creates communion!
The same audit is required to be practiced by parents to discern the effect of communication as communion, in their conversational engagement with children!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
