There’s something about a water view early in the morning, combined with an array of different bird sounds, that creates the perfect start to a day. Early in Florida, as the sun rises, you can enjoy the porch with a first cup of coffee and listen to a symphony of bird sounds before the heat of the day is upon you. The water is like a mirror reflecting the foliage beyond, broken only by tiny circles created by fish rising to feed on tempting insects at the water's surface.
We have black Ibis birds who walk the condominium grounds searching for food with their curved beaks. Seemingly oblivious to cars or people passing by the manicured lawns, they wander, reminding me of traveling in Egypt and its hieroglyphics.
To Egyptian farmers, the Ibis was a familiar sight, but to the priests of Egypt, the bird was a sign from their gods. Watching the birds rise into the sky over the fields, circle, and then descend back to earth, the priests imagined the Ibis were carrying hidden messages between heaven and earth.
To the Egyptians, the simple rhythm of flight and return to the earth was the descent of wisdom from the divine world into the human one. Thoth, their god of writing, law, and the secret order of creation, was revealed by the Ibis, which was not only a bird in the landscape, but a living example that knowledge itself was sacred.
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