Bird song

Our ears are plugged in all the time to iTunes, to the radio, to the TV. Our heads get filled up with stuff that numbs our brains and puts our minds on permanent pause. We essentially surrender ourselves.

But the birds don't stop singing. And if we listen, their songs take us back to ourselves, back to nature, where we have a much longer history of connectedness than to technology. Wouldn't it be a gift to walk into the bathroom at Cracker Barrel or a local tavern and hear bird songs instead of country music or the plodding rhythms of pop music?