The Pickleville Philosopher

Leadership

By Jim Stone, The Pickleville Philosopher

The honk, honk honkers were flying today.  Canadian honkers filled the sky today, they’re on the move. It’s kinda neat how migratory birds play on each other, it’s like they’re so intelligent.  When the swans migrate a lot of different species of water fowl and other birds take flight using the high sky winds and weather to their advantage.  They gain hundreds of miles by being fine-tuned into Mother Nature’s conditions.  Birds move in front of big storms and behind big storms the wind is their best friend if it’s blowing in the right direction.

I often think it’s not just weather and wind that triggers birds to migrate. Fish and their time to procreate are driven a lot by temperatures and time in a day.  It promotes them to make their journey to what instinct drives them to travel to. To me the birds are the same, when the sunshine is disappearing and days become short and cold, bang the trigger goes off.  

The birds have faith in their leaders unlike some of us about our leaders.  The birds follow their leaders with no questions asked.  To the birds getting to where they’re going is the main thing, but on their journey they trust their leaders to provide food, water, warmth and a comfy place to sleep. But if their health goes bad, they are done for.  

It makes me think that we all can provide most everything we need but we are smarter than the birds.  We have a government.  I think they should provide any thing we all need for our health and well-being like the birds.  We trust our leaders and us all being smarter than the birds we should only have to do just one more thing to be better; that’s take care of all people that need health care.  Money is a great thing but so many good, wonderful people aren’t so fortunate to have what they need to support and have a healthy family, it’s a shame.

Anyways it was a great day hunting geese.