The Bird Way

 

". . . my other brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. [It] was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."  - Anne Lamott

Moments in movement get results. Take a breath and launch into the flow. When the momentum takes over, revel in one word at a time, then the next one, one sentence, one paragraph, one page.

Suddenly the message writes itself. Birds fly from the fingertips.

Become a bird and fly from branch to branch. Capture notions from the sky, clouds, and leaves. Smell geraniums and roses. Hear the breeze and send a song to the atmosphere. 

Release from expectations of  "what should happen."

Let go on wings of discovery.