LIFE LESSONS FROM PELICANS?!

What can we learn from a pelican? Read On!

Hi and Welcome back to the Global Community Park!

So much is happening in the world that I find myself introspective and philosophical. I can't help but be a little sad with everything happening right now. This is usually a happy time for me but, with current events, it's hard not to think about the ones hurting.  Keeping this blog helps a lot. 

As for the subject of this post. 

Five days ago, we had a storm here in paradise. I think it became the storm, "Ajax". I don't think the information got on the weather report but, that doesn't surprise me as news seems to be selective these days.  




We had winds that rattled this house and blew the tops of the roof next door.  The storm lasted all night and into the next day. It was during the day that I watched the ocean and the pelicans. The winds were so strong that it blew my full garbage can from one end of the property to the other without tipping it over. 

for the holidays!

I watched the "goings on" outside my window, giant waves and awesome ocean activity, I saw flocks of pelicans flying against these mighty winds. I noticed that, as the winds got stronger, the pelicans, being pushed backward, would fly higher. They flew higher until they found a pocket or a force of air that they could succeed in flying against. They always found it too! I saw flock after flock make it though the storm by flying above it in the same manner.

Then, I thought, how I can learn from these pelicans? In my life (and probably in yours too) I've had many trials. I believe that's how we grow as human beings. I thought of the times when I've tried to fix my problems by pushing back against them, or maybe lowering my expectations and accepting less. Just to get through the "storm". Those decisions usually left me paralyzed, or being pushed two steps back for the one step forward that I took.

Do you remember this scene from "Friends" TV Show
of the 1990's?

I also, noted that the pelicans didn't fly lower, and they didn't land on the beach and wait until the storm subsided, but they flew above it. I recalled that, when I was able to rise above my problems, I could overcome them (most of the time) a lot easier. 

I wanted to share this with you, my reader, because having started to use this method, I'm now making a schedule to travel next year, starting after the holidays. I'm starting on the westcoast of the USA. I'm scheduling a trip to Solvang, California and Leavenworth, Washington to start. 

I also will plan a reunion for myself and about 6 - 10 of my best friends from secondary school, all of whom I lost contact with and recently found again on facebook. We talked about the reunion last year.

I'm enjoying my holidays and trying not to allow our current world situation to affect me too much. 

That's all for now! Adios! Til my next post! 

Next week Thanksgiving in Baja California!