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Listen To The Birds

You’ll discover something unexpected

I’m not a wildlife expert, so get ready for a massive generalisation that may make me sound very silly (not for the first time):

There are birds pretty much everywhere

So there is nearly always a chance to stop what you’re doing, look up… and listen to them singing, chirruping and squawking. Do it and you will find two things:

• the noises they make have their own beauty
• you’ve stopped

…and that’s the unexpected bit. We don’t stop enough. There’s always somewhere to be or something to do or the ping of a notification tempting us back to our phones.

We live most of our lives with our heads level or down, we don’t often look up. Getting your head up, your ears listening and your head out of your own thoughts and worries, can help so much. Just for a minute.