Birdy news

On my way to work this morning I stopped at the lights and looking around, saw about twenty white birds on the grassy knoll (I've waited years to write the word knoll) at the side of the road.
They were those white birds that sit on the backs of cows, Egrets I think but I'd have to ask "he who knows everything about birds", aka Sion. They remind me a little of Riff Raff in the Rocky Horror Show.
There they were pecking away at the grass below the steak house which made me wonder "just how rare is the steak they serve up there?"
They also reminded me how every bit of life is connected and serves a purpose. I was trying out one of those hugely expensive - but worth the cost - space age pillows. The lady serving me was telling a horror story about the number of mites in the average bed and how they come out and eat all the dead skin from our bodies. Yuch. But how awful we'd look with dead skin hanging off our arms, like something out of Shawn of the Dead (brilliant movie by the way). No matter how humble or gross, how huge or beautiful, most of nature works in synergy, each action having purpose and giving results.
It's about time we, the so called top of the ladder, most intelligent on the face of the earth gave this synergy stuff a try. Each action has consequences but I don't think that throwing a burger wrapper out of the car window, littering and thus creating work for the street cleaner is what we need.
Let's rather apply ourselves positively, taking on a pay it forward mentality, doing good, no matter how humble our effort, to create good thoughts and actions.
Do not confuse this with being a "DO-GOODER", people to be avoided at all costs.
It IS the little things that count. Smile at someone and perhaps this evening there won't be yet another family fight in their home. You get the idea, a little kindness goes a long way.
So what if the bird's sole purpose in life is to catch a few ticks on a cows back. Without his small act of kindness the meat eaters out there wouldn't have such nice beef, or those warm leather shoes and swanky bags.