You Find Your Birds

Each must enter the nest made by the other imperfect birds.”-Robert Bly.
New Zealand is home to the Weka, a population of flightless birds. 🐥.
In February, I ran 83 miles in 4 days on the Queen Charlotte track and had many the encounter with these imperfect birds. And a lot of time to think.

Robert Bly’s Imperfect Birds is really about how these messy, raggedy nests that are our lives can be a harbor for other people. When you're a raw, pulverized garbage ball of feelings... where do you go?
You visit the nests made by other imperfect birds, you find other people who've gone through it.
​You find the few people you can talk to about it.

.🐥.You find your birds.