Well, hello there. My name is Morgan Harper-Nichols. I'm an artist and a writer, and this is a space where I share words that I hope can make a little room for you to slow down and take a few deep breaths as you prepare for whatever lies ahead. Thanks for being here today. And now on to today's episode. Have you ever wondered how birds navigate their way

through the sky? When you look up and see them, it just seems like they know where they're going.

And when you think about the birds eye view, there are no visible

street signs or traffic lights in the sky to navigate the birds from one part of the world to

the other. And yet, when you see them fly, they seem to just know where they're going. They seem to have some larger picture,

bird's eye view, if you will, of where they're going and why. And yet when we look at our own

lives, we may feel very far away from that feeling. We may notice that bird flying by, soaring from one tree to the next, headed

wherever it needs to be, while simultaneously looking around our own lives, wondering when we too

can find that sort of rhythm pattern flow that we can lean into so that we can carry on and fly

from one place to the next as well. Now, if you happen to be someone who studies or researches

birds, then you might have a little bit more peace about this because you'll probably know

more about what's being studied about birds and their internal

global positioning system and how they navigate through the world by paying attention to the sun

and all these things. But for the rest of us who don't know that, a lot of times we look up and we just

see a bird headed on its way knowing where

it's going. And if we take that visual and we apply it to our own lives, we may not see that

being reflected. But one thing that I've been observing about birds, birds that I don't know that

well other than just observing them from where I can see them in the sky, birds that I don't know that well, other than just observing them from where I can

see them in the sky, is that even though I don't know their story, and even though I don't know

everything there is to know about how they get from one place to the world and then back again

without having little bird airports in the sky or traffic lights or all the

things that I need to get from one place to the next even though I don't know

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