Tuesday 31 December 2013

Happy New Year and name the Cockerel

Think of a name for this smart boy
Dubai Skyline
 A lot changes in a year! See that great cockerel strutting around the garden with his string of women!  He was a home-hatched chick in the summer, one of a clutch which the grey hen behind him brooded over and of which two hatched.  We thought he was a hen until about 6 weeks ago when suddenly his feathering changed and he developed a long neck, spurs on his legs and now has a clutch of his own admirers, one of whom is his surrogate mother.  So this is him today, New Year's Eve and judging by his progress, he has an active romantic year ahead and he needs a name.  Can you think of a good one?  something topical for this year maybe?
And what of your year, what changes will you make? what changes will I make? what changes will happen whether we want to make them or not?  In the photos above and below you can see the Dubai skyline, not much of that was there 10 years ago, that tallest building in the photo above, the Burjkhalifa wasn't there until a smart ambitious Emirati decided to build the tallest building in the world and hey presto, up it went.  One job I wouldn't want in the New Year would be a window cleaner in Dubai!
What do you think was there at the beginning of time? Along with the sun, the sky and the earth, water and fire? What impulse set the whole lot dancing until we have all that we can see, hear, touch, smell and feel?  If you become very very still and listen and watch carefully, if you take time to go beyond all this wonderful world, you might have a  glimpse, a feel for a conscious being which can't be known through our ordinary looking.  If the wise who practice being still are to be believed, it is well worth the effort.  So, Happy New Year to all of us and good luck with whatever we undertake to change.


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