Hello, Bird Watchers!
The Canada geese are everywhere in the Willamette Valley right now, and that’s why they keep making appearances in these haiku comics.
migration rest stop— flock of geese waddle in grass lone seagull strolls through
Belonging
Today, instead of a proper essay I present you with a listicle of five fragments about belonging.
One
If you were an anthropologist from another galaxy tasked with examining the fears of Earthlings, two fears would top the list: dying and becoming an outcast.
Perhaps, these two fears are interconnected.
A simple look at our advertising would show this outer space academic that we are obsessed with looking and seeming young and belonging to the right group.
Two
Human beings are capable of almost inconceivable cruelty, and yet each one of us is also capable of infinite love. How do we reconcile that?
I don’t think these two things can be reconciled. Instead, they both must be accepted.
Three
We cannot ever know the mind of another being. Not truly. I’m not even sure I can know my own mind.
Four
The older I get, the more convinced I am that the work of aging is accepting your inevitable death and accepting that most of your judgments of other people are ill-informed, ill-conceived, and irrelevant.
Five
I’m fond of saying that not every poem is a memoir, but every poem has a scarp of my soul embedded inside. Today’s haiku comic comes straight from my life.
During one of my walks, I saw a flock of geese milling about a baseball field while a single seagull walked among the flock as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
The seagull felt it belonged there. The geese seemed to feel like the seagull belonged there as well.
Sometimes, we humans create barriers to belonging where none need exist.
Be the weird you want to see in the world!
Cheers,
Jason
Profound. And I can see it just five minutes from my house. Great artwork too.
Fabulous haiku
A post that speaks to my soul
I understand you