ENGAGING

[schlomo]

ENGAGING

Every day I am entranced (looking out from my lanai) to see configurations of white birds as they soar over the golf course and undulate toward the Koolau mountain range. Sometimes the birds en masse resemble a phalanx of warriors. At other moments, all I can see is a carefree solitary bird dipping and zipping along its convoluted route—via a predetermined blueprint or a spontaneous outburst in a madcap adventure. In any case, the spiraling white birds entertain me and, in other instances, afford me the rare opportunity to meditate (not my forte) on my good fortune. Today was no exception. But what was remarkably coincidental occurred later on in the evening.

My wife and I have been binging on the TV series Blue Bloods. Every episode contains an overview of the NYC skyline. I have never seen any birds in these snippets. Tonight, however, an array of white birds was hovering in the TV footage. Wow! At first, I was amazed at the juxtaposition of the birds seen from my lanai and the similar ones on Blue Bloods. Upon reflection, perhaps those Manhattan birds were visible in each skyscape, and I wasn’t observant enough to see them.

An aside: Human nature being what it is, (whether we wing it or are unflappably rigid) if we purchase a red car for the first time, we tend to notice other red cars on the road. And we might even congratulate ourselves for our insight.