“The wilder the weather is, the more the ravens love it. They have the time of their lives in the winter, when the wind gets much stronger and there’s a lot of ice and snow.
They challenge the wind.
They get on the tops of the trees and they hold on with their claws and then they grab on with their beaks as well.
At some point they just let go into the wind and let it blow them away. Then they play on it, they float on it.
After a while, they’ll go back to the tree and start over. It’s a game.
Once I saw them in an incredible hurricane-velocity wind, grabbing each other’s feet and dropping and then letting go and flying out. It was like a circus act.
The animals and the plants here on Cape Breton are hardy and fearless and playful and joyful; the elements have strengthened them.
In order to exist here, they have had to develop a zest for challenge and for life.
As you can see, it adds up to tremendous beauty and inspiration and uplifted feeling.The same goes for us.”
~Pema Chƶdron, The Wisdom of No Escape
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