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Wed May 8, 2013, 10:16 AM May 2013

Sparrows Don’t Buy Condos | Mickey Z.


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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

May 8, 2013

“Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don’t speak bird.”

- Kurt Cobain

Quite often, my walk to Astoria Park -- a green urban sanctuary on the banks of the mighty East River (which is not really a river, but a tidal strait that connects Upper New York Bay to the Long Island Sound, but don’t get me started) -- involves me passing gaudy condos called “Pistilli Riverview East” in what used to be the yellowish-tan Eagle Electric plant.

Last week, as I strolled past this eyesore, I took notice of several sparrows nesting in the letter of the condo sign (see accompanying photo). This seemingly benign event set me off on fanciful flight of reflection and recollection.

“Perfection is not an Accident”
Even after Eagle Electric became idle, its motto remained emblazoned in ten-foot-tall letters near the top of the structure: “Perfection is not an Accident.”

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Sparrows Don’t Buy Condos | Mickey Z. (Original Post) Tace May 2013 OP
Nice musing! Newest Reality May 2013 #1

Newest Reality

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1. Nice musing!
Wed May 8, 2013, 10:30 AM
May 2013

Perfection is far more natural and immediate than we can conceive, belief or even feel.

Though for many of us it may still remain imminent, the Quantum leap to direct experience is always there, beyond the rusty chains of fear and hope. It is reality beyond the shell of contrived fixations and outside the cage of beliefs. It is the liberation that lets you know there was never anything to be free from, so it confounds you when you contemplate it from within the cloud of limitations built of genetics and conditioning.

Sparrows know this.

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