So I'm here at the water's edge on Beaver Creek drinking my morning cup of tea with Fred. The Swan family swim to be close to us and I ask Fred to help me feed them because the three baby Swans are getting so big and hungry!Fred goes to one side of our lawn a little away from me and starts feeding Mommy, Daddy, and one baby Swan. I try to get all 3 baby Swans to join me so I can feed the whole wheat bread to them. It's a lot easier to feed them now with Fred's help. After we finish we go back into the house so they know that their feedtime is over.
I'm inside with Fred doing some meditation and alignment work. In a little while I look outside the window and notice Papa Swan is back alone and looking for more food and there's no way I'm going to give him more food.
I look up again and see 4 white Egrets flyby and land on the small dock that belongs to the house just next to ours. I'm surprised when Fred tells me he has just spotted the Egrets flying in a group because I had never seen more than 2 Egrets together. I get out the binoculars and watch closely as the birds are cleaning and drying out their feathers. They do their thing for a little longer and then the group flies off.
I can see that Papa Swan is still here by our dock alone. I look down the Creek and suddenly spot Mama and the three baby Swans flying towards us. Mommy Swan lands close to our house and the three young ones keep on flying away!
I go in the house and find Fred and together we watch the Mommy swim up close to her mate. They are alone for the first time in a long time. They look to me to be so much in harmony and peace. I stand close to Fred and tell him that this is the first time since the young Swans have been born that the parent swans are alone, a couple again. I feel inside of me a rush of energy knowing that now Mommy and Papa swan are free again! I tell Fred that I have to go out and be with them to celebrate their new freedom.
For me, I feel assured that I've just witnessed a rite of passage of Nature. Both swans had to let their babies go. I bring them one more piece of bread feeding them off our dock again. I say to my swan friends what great parents they've been, and tell them out loud that they are free!I say goodbye and go inside, and with Fred, watch them as they swim close to each other in such harmony. Fred comments that we first watched them mate in front of us on the water here in early spring. Months later, they brought their babies to us on the first day they were born, all 7 of them. Sadly, only 3 survived. Such are the ways of Nature and now today Mommy and Papa released them today to go on and be free in their young swan lives.
They have shared it all with us and I feel so blessed with such a gift from allowing us to be a part of their lives in such beautiful and intimate ways. A little later, I watch out the window as they both swim off. Then, I see the 3 young swans are back with them looking for food again.
The 'rite of passage of Nature' for me is such a beautiful and blessed gift to us all in this world! I love you always, blessings of Peace and Love.
Katrina
