To Live With the Intensity of a Hummingbird.

A friend asked me this morning, what’s the best advice I’ve ever received.

Without hesitation, I replied,

“To live with the intensity of a hummingbird”

These were the words once shared to me by one of my dearest friends. He had stopped by early one morning for coffee – in hindsight, perhaps ‘sensing’ a need. I had been struggling with the challenge of some recent news, uncertain as to how I might ever find my way through.

“He lived with the intensity of a hummingbird,” his eyes filling with tears, as he shared the story of his beautiful son, David. And though, his voice marked the intensity of his pain – still, he offered safe refuge within his soulful smile.

David had suffered through a rare and incurable disease, finally succumbing at just a few years of age.

Though devastated, still my friend found an irrepressible source of strength and inspiration – recounting the many stories of young David living life ‘in spite of’ his disease.

So, today – as with all days – I shall ‘live with the intensity of a hummingbird’, remembering the heart of a young child stolen away too soon.

Thank you, young master David – for teaching me that life should be lived in spite of our news.

My darlings, may we all live our lives with the intensity of this beautiful little hummingbird.

Namaste, and much love, my dearest friends.. <3

About

Tara Lemieux is a mindful wanderer, and faithful stargazer. Although she often appears to be listening with great care, rest assured she is most certainly‘forever lost in thought. She is an ardent explorer and lover of finding things previously undiscovered or at the very least mostly not-uncovered.

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