Bird brain

Kind of strange that I would put a bird on my blog. Anyone who knows me well, knows that I don't like birds. Well, not up close and personal. When I was little, we had a pet parakeet. I hated...that my mother would let that darned thing fly around the house. It would land on the kitchen sink faucet and I wouldn't drink from that faucet...forever. My mother just laughed. Everyone just laughed. They didn't get how disgusting that was. It loved to land on our heads. I was sure it was going to poop on me and besides that, its claws would prick my scalp and drive me nuts. I hated it. One day, Tinkerbell landed on my head and as luck would have it...I didn't know he was there and walked outside. Poor Tinkerbell was never seen again. (That's my story and I'm sticking to it!)
But I have always loved looking at birds through cages and windows and in the wild...through binoculars. Get them too close to me and I react like some brainless idiot with serious paranoiac, phobic issues.
So I suppose it is odd to have a bird at the top of my blog. Well...I love this particular bird and it kind of symbolizes to me how there are really two sides to everything. I really love to watch birds and can appreciate their grace, color and beauty. But I also hate birds, they're prickly and pecky, they can poke with their beaks, and they can poop anywhere at any time. So I can see both sides of their personalities pretty clearly and I can take them either way depending on the circumstances. Certainly, we can look at each other two different ways, too - positively or negatively. We look for the bad and we surely will find it, we look for the good and we can find that side as well.
The other thing that I wanted to point out is that I LOVE this saying. Have any of you ever seen Mary Martin's stage version (musical) of "Peter Pan?" I grew up with that and there is one song in it where Peter sings, "I like to crow." It is really cute and I think these blogs are so great because they give us the voice that we all need. Sometimes we just need to sing our song. It doesn't matter what the song is or who is listening. We communicate because we have something unique in each of us that just feels better when we let it out.