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Thank you for this.

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Thank you Sarah. I needed it today too.

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After busy day, I opened this email, trying to avoid the elephant in the room, and it was the perfect reminder of what is beautiful and good. The videos were wonderful. Thank you!

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Thank you Sue

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I love the videos, especially the pelicans. I even laughed a bit at them. I had a minor fender-bender this morning to add to all the other stress, so your (and God's) birds were a welcome visual hug.

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Thank you Jacqueline - and oh, I'm sorry, it's so easy to happen when we are stressed too! Lots of love.

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Am pre-registered to join a Zen Peacemakers zoom meditation session, there are 3 this evening of 1/2 hr each, starting at 6pm. https://hive.zenpeacemakers.org/networks/events/151920. They still have it up so there are openings. Voted by mail and checked it was received.

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Oh that sounds lovely! Thank you Sharon.

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How did those pelicans perform that perfect choreography? Your photos help alleviate my floating anxiety today. Their lives will continue on perfectly beyond today's results.

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I know, right? It's truly amazing.

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I needed this today~ really nervous ~ thank you

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Catherine, sending so much love. Whatever happens, we will lean into faith.

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Karen ❤️yes I do need to just breathe~

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Thank you Karen for the most perfect distractions for today. I am in desperate need . Starting out with the brilliance of a sunrise, so bright, I need to hold my hand across my forehead to view. All thoughts of the chaos of the day, erased.

Do you think you could post every hour? Ok, maybe every two?

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Lor, I was in desperate need too. I wish I could have posted every hour, although the day job was a good distraction today.

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My TV will be off all day and tomorrow too! Abide in the Grace says I.

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100% excellent strategy. Abide in Grace - have faith in what is larger. That's what I'm *trying* to do.

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Ahh ... a little flow time is a good thing any day, but especially today! Thank you!

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Thank you Sandy!

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Thank you for the loving gift

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Thank you Cali. I needed it too.

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Thank you so much for this today, Karen--it's perfect, and exactly what I needed But then, every day seeing these beautiful, peaceful, unified birds is a wonderful day!! :D

When I see the avocets I think of the book series Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (by Ransom Riggs) where the headmistresses are all able to transform into birds, and there's a Miss Avocet. I had to look up what kind of bird an avocet was when I first read her name, because I didn't know! When you said you might be one at heart, I thought that was really cool, and--maybe you're right!! <3

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Ok - WHAT?!? I need to read this book! Thank you Roxy!

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I bought the first 3 in a set, then ended up getting the others one at a time after that. I read them while I was rehabbing after hip and knee replacement surgeries, and gave them to one of the young PT at rehab! I was raving about them so much she wanted to read them, too!😄

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Thank you!

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I LOVE these books, and I bet you will, too, Karen!! They're a YA series, I guess, but I read them a couple of years ago at age 63 and they are among my favorite books ever. I also recently started the new series by the same author 🥰 The first book is Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (there's a movie made of this book, too, but doesn't follow it exactly--still pretty good though!). The author is Ransom Riggs. Here's a set of the first 3 books in "very good" condition https://www.wob.com/en-us/books/ransom-riggs/miss-peregrine-s-peculiar-children-boxed-set/9781594748387/CIN1594748381VG?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAxKy5BhBbEiwAYiW--6qrAeVMF5w2ztr1ErI7YnlfN2RiBcZSfZgeLG7XItyvrDeb1k3bqhoCPKYQAvD_BwE

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Good morning Karen, I voted early and with conviction, following the lead of my heart. Your post today was inspiring both by your images/videos and your writing.

I’ll tell the elephant on my couch it’s time to be put out to pasture to make room for some incredibly smart and cooperative donkeys.

In your video of the White Pelicans, I imagined one, having just scooped up a large fish, saying to its neighbor, “I just caught a large, lovely fish. I don’t feel right with having it all to myself. Would you care to share?”

The elephant I suggested needing to be put out to pasture can’t be forgotten and left without access to clean hay and potable water. Still it has lessons to learn about community and connection. One step at a time. We can’t forget that we are our brother’s and sister’s keeper. Peace today and always.

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Thank you Gary! And ah, yes, cooperative donkeys! I agree with you on the elephant. Peace to you too.

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Amazing! I might watch these all day long. What a gift. I can feel my nervous system calming the tiniest little bit with each video.

I've never seen coordinated fishing like those white pelicans! The brown pelicans I see in Florida never do that. I never see them in groups bigger than five or six, usually flying in formation. In fact, when one of them catches a fish, they all fight over it. Not a good lesson for us, I think.

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I've never seen pelicans do anything like this before or since either! Thanks Robyn.

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a beautiful post of instinctive cooperation, Karen. Would that all our instincts worked that way for the betterment of all.

Wishing you love and peace from Canada

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Thank you Lorraine. I think our instincts do, until they are shaped by trauma and life.

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Wonderful, many thanks.

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Thank you Jim

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Really enjoyed these videos and needed this today!

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Thank you SK

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