67. Rare Bird

Our listener Karina brings back the BIRD CONTENT with her voice memo telling us about the significance of seeing a rare bird on her birthday. 

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Nora:  I  am Nora McInerny, and it’s going to be okay.  And today’s message is from Karina.

Karina:  T here are not many times where I feel like things are going to be okay, but as I was getting ready for my 29th birthday party, I had a moment where it was abundantly clear that things were going to be okay. I lost my partner in the love of my life. June 19th, 2021. The months of May and June, actually even March, April, may, and June are the heaviest.

As the weather changes and things get warmer, people start coming out of their homes and enjoying the sunshine. My birthday happens to fall in my grief months, and to make a very long story short my partner Javier, and I would call one another our rare birds, specifically Mac McCall Bird, which living in the northwest of the United States, they do not fly by or exist very often.

I remember waking up and telling my roommate, All I want for my birthday is for Javier to send me a Mac, MCCA bird. That’s all I want. Knowing very well that would not happen, at least not in a normal, predictable world

as we were getting ready for my birthday party putting up a banner, I. Was frustrated trying to make this balloon arch fit and do what it was supposed to do. And as the spring flowers are out and there’s beautiful things all around us, I wasn’t so much thinking about how things were going to be okay for that day until I looked up and my jaw dropped.

I saw a bird. No, it was not a Mac McCall bird, but it was a bird bright enough for me to drop my jaw, and stop. Take a deep breath, and realize it was going to be okay. This bird had an orange head, a bright yellow stomach. I dropped the banner, I stared at the bird and stared back at me. Moved its head a couple of times and it was close enough to a Mac, McCaul bird that I realized no matter what, everything is going to be okay.

My roommate stared at me, stared at the bird. We had a moment of, is that a house bird? Where did this bird come from? This is not a normal bird. And then she said, Go inside the house and take a moment, take that in. And as I sat there and took a deep breath, I realized that everything was okay. I. 

Nora:  I truly thought when we started this podcast that I was maybe making too much bird content. I was worried. I was talking too much about birds, but you know what, you all talk a lot about birds too. All of you. This podcast is about to be called birds are, it’s going, birds are going to be okay. It’s going to be, it’s going to be about birds again, it’s.

Going to be okay. Said this bird. This a birding podcast now. So thank you Karina for calling in and sharing this and thank you to birds in general because these birds, guys, these birds, I’m telling ya. The, it is usually about birds, but when it isn’t, it changes every day. And it’s different for all of us.

And the best part is hearing yours and sharing yours, especially when they’re about birds. You can email us you can attach a voice memo and email it to us. You can call us at (612) 568-4441. Our email is ig tbo feelings n.co. We always. Link that in our show description because sometimes people have a hard time, I don’t know, recalling an email address that somebody read out loud to them.

I don’t know why that would be hard. It’s hard because, you know why it’s hard. I also, some of you are driving, I don’t want you pulling over to write an email. You know it’s going to be okay as a production of Feelings and Co. And you can find all of our podcasts. You can find our store, our awesome cool merch at feelings and.co the team at Feelings and Co.

And that it’s going to be okay is me. Marcel, Mel Kibo, Jordan Turgeon, Claire McInerny and Megan Palmer. Our theme music is by Secret Audio, and I record these in my closet and sometimes bird sounds get in.