Our next-door neighbors have a rooster and some chickens.
It isn’t unusual for us to have a rooster somewhere in the surrounding area, because people here live on acreage.
For many years, one of our other neighbors had a rooster that crowed every morning at or about sunrise. I always enjoyed it, even during the summer, when sunrise can be as early as 4:30 am or so. A rooster is an icon of country life, and I like the feel of it.
This new rooster crows all day. Apparently it didn’t get the memo that roosters are supposed to crow only at sunrise.
It does crow at or near sunrise, but it also crows many times throughout the day, without apparent rhyme or reason as to the particular times.
I became curious about rooster behavior, and learned that it is really a myth that roosters crow only at sunrise.
Roosters crow for lots of other reasons than to herald the sunrise. They crow to protect their territory. They crow when they hear another rooster crow. They crow to communicate with their flock. And they crow just because they feel like crowing.
I decided that this rooster was giving me an opportunity to wake up to my life more fully, all throughout the day.
So, now, the rooster is my wake up call. Any time that I hear it crow, which is beautifully random, and all throughout the day, I stop, and breathe, and bring myself as fully as I can into the present moment. I wake up to my life.
What wakes you up to your life?
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