Wednesday's Wisdom is from Mourning Doves

Zenaidura macroura ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN V1

Zenaidura macroura ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN V1

The Zenaidura macroura seen in the pictures atop this entry were taken yesterday from my kitchen window where I can see the outside wall of my rooftop garden.
These birds each faced a different direction with only a movement of an ever so slight tilt of the head or an eyelid.

Zenaidura macroura ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN V1

Zenaidura macroura ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN V1

Each of creature sat nearly motionless in "their" place for quite sometime.

To me both of the creatures seem to be deep in thought or contemplating.

Or was I projecting on that last Tuesday of the month where my mind was over flowing with anxiety-ridden thoughts in a new decade that has not started off too well for me?

For it's quite possible that neither of the avian beauties were thinking about anything.

Rather they may have just been sitting in their respective places "participating" in the often hard act (at least for me) of being still.

The Zenaidura macroura's common name is Mourning dove and his/her "call" is a distinctive “wooo-oo-oo-oo" sound; which is a fact I mention in volume one of my three volume book series, Words In Our Beak.

WORDS IN OUR BEAK, A BOOK SERIES

The call of Mourning doves may evoke a feeling of grief over the loss of a dearly beloved.

But as a number of sources point out (including Bright Hub Education AKA BHE), "far from representing death, mourning dove symbolism can give us optimism with its spirituality. "

BHE points out "Beyond their sorrowful song is a message of life, hope, renewal and peace."

I'd like to use this week's Wednesday's Wisdom's blog segment  to think each of the birds featured here came to visit me during yet another personally dark time (I've received yet another round of disappointing new) so I might be inspired by "their symbol of hope, peace and the Holy Spirit," and to offer that consolation to you, dear reader, should you be experiencing difficult times.

MOURNING DOVES ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN V1

MOURNING DOVES ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN V1