Tales of Good Will

It started with an impulse of kindness, then a
gesture of good will.
A week before Christmas, a knock on our door
Our neighbors wished us good tidings and delivered
a goody bag - of  Lindor's chocolates and a birdhouse 
that was covered with seeds.  A novel gift idea? 

On the first snow after Christmas, I set this birdhouse 
feeder on the back deck.  Cardinals and Blue Jays found
it in minutes.
It snowed again about a week later.  The birds feasted
once again.  They finished the  seed, they stripped it clean.

In the last week of March, my other neighbor, also a recipient
of this same gift, sent me a text - explaining that she had
placed her birdhouse in a tree by a window, and a Chickadee 
had already moved in, building a nest.  And with any luck,
she and her nine year old son would have a close view 
of hatching eggs. 
Heck, I previously thought the birdhouse was just an ornament.

So just a few days ago, on a warm sunny day, I stared at
the birdhouse still standing on the rail of our deck -
but not for long 

From one simple act of kindness,
stop and count the ways that goodness spreads,
from sowing a seed...

a gesture of good will to people and our neighbors
of the natural world...

A little shelter from the storm...
_____

As we practice social distance, it's  encouraging
to see people reconnect with nature...