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On my way home from dropping my son off at the train station I saw the most interesting sight. Actually have seen this before once with a swarm of bees
and even fish
but rarely birds. With bees they’re moving the hive and the fish are frenzy feeding but the birds today looked aimless. Unlike migration with a destination, this was a definite circular pattern which almost made me nauseous to watch. Around and around as if they were caught in a looped tornado, self-propelled entities but what triggered this? Was the cohesiveness of the group so important to trigger flocking and seemingly erratic behavior?
This video clip on Youtube shows exactly what I saw today with a flock of pigeons.
Of course this got me doing some research and to my amazement found a study which was conducted in Italy. Interaction ruling animal collective behavior depends on topological rather than metric distance;( http://www.pnas.org/content/105/4/1232.full) in other words, they showed this behavior triggered the flocks when they were attacked by a predator be it a falcon or bullet, cohesiveness of the group demonstrated this affect, end result, confuse the enemy.
A thought of Alfred Hitchcock movie comes to mind, the enemy for those birds was man. And of course “birds of a feather flock together”.
Popularity, reduce risk of predation and basically congregate and enjoy life together, kinda like NaBloPoMo! So maybe to some on the outside we look odd but there is a reason for this; 30 days of truth or fiction, the choice is ours and we flow with it.
Usually I chose non-fiction. Not sure why, think it was the pretty butterfly on the cover and my very first novel I read was; The Collector as a child.
Mom said it was fiction but after reading it my 11 year old voice blurted “Mom this could really happen, I could see this happening” and my heart bled for the trapped dying woman.
See many souls in this state, where control rules and the person becomes a puppet, aimless and fat. Not that fat is a sign of being trapped but food is such a BIG comfort and insulation is necessary for the abandoned ones. Maybe obesity is so evident because food is so available. But It’s never really about the food though, it’s about unmet needs. The choices we make to medicate the woundedness within and maybe the unconscious reason we join a group. Deep down we can hide or just maybe sense, an answer is just a heartbeat or keystroke away. If we could just quiet the noise around us long enough to explore and listen.
My son, the one who is brilliant and pure genius, the one who is saving money riding the train every day, my first born and joy of my life, well he met the most amazing business man an author, Leonard Rubino. Kinda by accident, though in life truly believe there is no such thing. There is a song I came across today describing this event by the artist Adele; Hiding my Heart
This is how the story went
I met someone by accident
It blew me away
It blew me away
It was in the darkest of my days
When you took my sorrow and you took my pain
And buried them away, you buried them away
In essence, this is just what this man did for my son. Unemployed and ego destroyed, as he had to find shelter back home with family, something no healthy adult male wishes to admit and to witness his beloved grandfather dying, a recipe for depression if there ever was one. Well he gets a call and a challenge an in no time solves the puzzle. The call came from a good friend from school who couldn’t figure out a web problem and everyone was use to calling good ole Ron. But this time there was another challenge solved and the head of the company now wanted to meet my son in person. Was it Karma, was it reaping what he sowed; always helping his friends, or was it his dying grandfather’s prayer; please Lord send someone to help my grandson succeed in this world. Cocktail for success either way you look at it, the owner of this company hired my son immediately.
Leonard decided
