Rippling liquid song
Fluent language; native tongue
I bow to your quench
©Robyn Lee


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January 16, 2013 | Categories: Nature, Spiritual, Winter 2013 | Tags: bow, craving, desire, divine, haiku, healing, lake, Love, nature, pain, photography, poetry, quench, Robyn Lee, sanctuary, snow goose, spirit, thirst, wildlife, worship | 69 Comments
Her curtains are drawn, as ducks convene
The stage is set for rest and dreams;
Most will slumber through and through
Others sacrifice sleep, to protect their crew.
~ Robyn Lee

The following is a bit of duck trivia that I found fascinating, demonstrating how, even at the most primitive level, living beings instinctually develop systems to protect their own. If you examine my photo above, you can see which ducks are ‘protecting’ this evening. Enjoy!
Much Love ~ RL
Dr. Niels Rattenborg has studied sleep patterns of birds, including ducks. He monitored the brain waves of ducks as they sleep and learned some interesting things. Ducks often spend the night together as a group, often sleeping in a row. The ducks on the end of the row or outside of the group are easily spooked by any movement nearby.
They sleep with their eye away from the group open, while the other eye is closed. Rattenborg found that one of the hemispheres of the brains of these outside ducks was functioning at 100% capacity while the other hemisphere was in sleep mode. Apparently the duck has the ability to sleep with half the brain at a time asleep while the other half is fully responsive to the environment.
There is an obvious advantage to this system. Not only is the duck protecting itself by being constantly awake on the side that danger might come from, but the duck is also protecting the other ducks in the center.
References:
Discover, May 1999
Scientific American, May 1999
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May 5, 2012 | Categories: Spring 2012 | Tags: brain waves, Duck, dusk, instincts, lake, Mallard, nature, Rattenborg, Robyn Lee, sky, waterfowl, wildlife | 32 Comments
“Often the only way to receive the answer
is to release the question.”
~Robyn Lee

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April 12, 2012 | Categories: Spring 2012 | Tags: answers, bench, decisions, guidane, lake, meditation, pain, peace, prayer, questions, refuge, secrets, spirituality, trees | 47 Comments
“Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence,
that splendor is not beauty.”
~Benjamin Disraeli

Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday weekend!
~Robyn Lee
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April 7, 2012 | Categories: Spring 2012 | Tags: canadian goose, Disrali, elegance, lake, lessons, life, magnificence, nature, reflections, refuge, teach, trees, wildlife | 15 Comments
When life offers the
gift of opportunity,
we must be ready to take that plunge…

And when we plunge–
let it be without pause,
with pure passion,
and with every fiber of our being.

~Robyn Lee
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April 4, 2012 | Categories: Spring 2012 | Tags: all the way, ducklings, hell yes, lake, opportunity, passion, Plunge, refuge, Robyn Lee, submerge, wildlife | 27 Comments
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
~ Lao Tzu

February 2012

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March 31, 2012 | Categories: Spring 2012 | Tags: branches, ice, lake, nature, patience, peace, process, seasons, sky, spring, transition, trees | 12 Comments
“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming – dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
~ Edgar Allan Poe

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March 11, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: branches, doubt, dream, fear, hiding, lake, nature, peer, refuge, screen, trees | Leave a comment
“The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.”
~ Pablo Picasso

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March 5, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: balance, branches, clouds, color, flowers, harmony, lake, reflections, weeds, winter | 6 Comments
“All things are ready, if our minds be so.” ~ William Shakespeare

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March 1, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: canadian goose, dock, flight, lake, nature, preparedness, readiness, Shakespere | 11 Comments
I gazed into the lake for a while today, and then…the lake gazed back at me.
~ Robyn Lee

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February 26, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: clouds, gaze, lake, reflection, sky, trees, wind | 10 Comments
“You were born with wings” ~ Rumi

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February 19, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: birds, flight, flock, freedom, lake, Rumi, sky, spirit, unencumbered, wings | 18 Comments
Note: Click the blue link to find out what so many humans have in common with this goose
Paradoxical « THROUGH THE HEALING LENS

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February 4, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: dignified, dock, elegant, flight, goose, graceful, lake, paradox, regal, wild | 2 Comments
Note: Click link below (blue) to find out more on what this bench means to me
Rewards « THROUGH THE HEALING LENS

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January 29, 2012 | Categories: Winter 2012 | Tags: air, bench, cool, earth, internal, lake, oxygen, pensive, quiet, rewards, sky, stillness | 2 Comments

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