Loved

Hello my name is speckels and I am a bird. My gorgeous feathers are bright red, orande and the deepest blue. My wingspan is only 5 inches so I'm tiny compared to most other birds. So I make up for size in the beautiful songs ( I think so anyway) I sing.

My songs make me happy on the inside. So when I'm happy my sweet tweets make the human people I see happy too. I love to get thier attention its a game I play all day long. How many people can I make smile today by doing something I love to do.

Some days I go hang out in the tree outside of a widow's bedroom window. She is so lonely her husband who was with her from high school has recently passed away. She had 67 wonderful years and misses him so. When I meet her after lunch when shes reading I land on the tree and start my melody. Sometimes I think she is watching and waiting for me. Her chair faces the window and when she hears me she sets down her reading and rocks her chair to my song. I feel like we are old friends. It makes me smile inside to see peace come over her face. I know ill miss her when she is gone.

My days are filled with so much joy from all my songs especially when the mom with three small kids sets out her baked honey buns just for me. Her days are filled with dirty diapers feeding times and laundry. She loves her family and her husband is good but stealing time away just for her self is precious. So when I smell those fresh baked honey buns I know shes outside having mommy time. That's my que to join her in some singing. I'll nibble a few bites then rest on the table by her chair and chirp my heart out. She gets such a kick out it. She will start humming along. Next thing I know she's found rest and solitude energised to take on her proudest role as mom again.

There are so many wonderful things about being a tiny bird with bright colors I could go on and on. But just for myself somedays I fly off to the high tree my mom once had and sing my heart out to the one that gave me these bright colors and beautiful songs. Here is where I find my inspiration to indulge all the humans I find with the gift God gave me, my song