“Mr. Bluebird on my shoulder…”
“Zippity Doo Dah!”
We’re more than halfway through the year, and I finally printed out these bluebird pictures from the holidays 6 months ago. Curiously, looking over them chilled me out during this hot summer stretch. Cool blue…I think there’s something to that!
“My oh my, what a wonderful day!” That’s how the song goes, and bluebirds do sing each morning. Their morning song is a two second, low-pitched melodious warbling. In 1887, Henry David Thoreau even spoke of receptive fields: “a foundry full of moulds for casting bluebirds’ warbles.”
Documented research indicates bluebirds do recognize humans. Trust can arise.
Some didn’t trust the blue they witnessed in the sky last week. Several viewers sent me photos.
Courtesy: Pat in NPB
The jellyfish art in the sky arose from the early Space X launch of more Starlink satellites.
Courtesy: @amlesso
The exhaust from the rocket (water vapor and carbon dioxide) expands into a bulbous cloud when it reaches the upper atmosphere. When it hits direct sunlight in the predawn hours, a translucent glow forms a bell-like shape.
“I’m real!”
This little dude is a new species discovered near Darwin Island in the Galapagos. The cerulean cutie, only the size of a golf ball, lives 5800 feet deep in Pacific waters. Scientists used advanced CT imaging to study its internal organs and identify it.
Blue is the rarest color in nature. Tiny but mighty?
How about sound and stature? Keeping with the bell theme, Blue Dwarf Giants are stars that sing. They are hot, rapidly pulsating, and chiming like bells. We can’t hear it because sound waves are trapped in stars. So what’s the “starlink” here? Astroseismology.
I’m convinced there’s a musicality of the cool blue flame of trust. True blue is rare in nature. Yet, in color psychology, blue evokes trust.
“Blue Sky Light” (taken over Boca Raton)
“Trust translates as patterns of positivity.”
Trust imagines the best version of a human or a situation. Yes, it’s rare. Yes, it’s easily broken. But, if established, a special resonance is achieved.
The scriptures describe the apostle Paul’s three missionary journeys to Troas (Troy). After the last, he found himself imprisoned in Rome under execution orders by the emperor Nero. There, he penned a letter to his friend Timothy. In it, there’s an intriguing request.
“When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, and my scrolls, especially the parchments.” (2 Timothy 4:13)
This may have been code in a context of persecution. Trust words are cloaked layers of life. Paul trusted Timothy and Paul trusted “Carpus”, which means fruit or harvest.
It’s been my experience that God’s Word lives through the papyrus reeds/reads (scrolls) of the past, and in the unwritten parchments of the future. Scattered light provides the blue color of sky, but that’s simply background for a greater unity working all things together for the good: salvation through Jesus. After all, that’s the good news Paul died preaching!
Blues aren’t sad, they’re soulful. “It’s the truth. It’s actual, Everything is satisfactual.” Enjoy the music of the week! 😄
