Lessons from Squirrels

Squirrels seem pretty active right now. I can see in the tree by my window that they’ve built a drey (the official name for their nests) way out at the end of a series of long swaying branches. When the wind blows it must swing around tremendously.

The thing is that the squirrels are used to this sort of motion. We’d all be panicked or sea-sick if we had to live there. We love our stability so very much.

Nothing wrong with stability, of course; but sometimes I wonder if, just may be, we might want to get more familiar with uncertainty. Perhaps we might want to accept the wild swinging that life gives us cheerfully, and not expect it to be anything other than it is – the natural way of things. How would it feel, do you think, if we accepted that?