Watching Sunbirds
A change is as good as a holiday, or so ‘they’ say. A new outlook on life can provide a new lease on life, too. Mine is a literal and physical change of view as I move workspaces in search of a shift in energy and a quieter space in which to focus, concentrate and achieve the many things I set out for myself to do each day. Sitting with an almost-360-degree view of the outside world, as opposed to having my back to it, I practice the elasticity of mind that I have been cultivating through my meditation practice. Not only does this elastic band get stretched when the constant stream of varied energy moves through the space (in the form of colleagues popping in and out) but also when any one of the hundreds of sunbirds who have arrived to feast on the winter aloe garden outside arrive. Maybe arrive is the wrong word. They dart, weave and pop into view as tiny little iridescent balls of energy. They joyfully perch and hop as they suck the nectar from the aloes… only ever taking
