PERSISTENCE/PATIENCE/PERCEPTION/PERSEVERANCE

WITH PIGEONS

Jim Emerton

The great strain makers like Emiel Denys/Neil Bush/Jim Donaldson have all manifested these personality traits in the execution of distance or marathon races over 700 miles. They have all practiced related family breeding like line and inbreeding with birds they have tested and proven with their own racing skills and practices. I have had dealings with these men, who have remained at the top for very many years rising up to be stars in their own right. They are not flavour of the month, dedicated followers of fashion, trend setters, but are as genuine as fanciers can get at the quality performance level. You can learn from this guys-study the reasons why they have done so well. More to success than buying a few well-bred birds me thinks? Analyse why Gilbert and the Coopers, Gordon, and Denney have done so well, with different birds in different locations? They apply this insight, knowledge and wisdom to breeding and racing. Yes there is much to think about, is there not?

SELF KNOWLEDGE

A person with a well differentiated psyche may know himself or herself. Growth of the inner man is key, with insight gleaned by introspection. With many alienated souls in the human world, there are some people with an inner core of cerebral self-knowledge. Beneath the ego may be a feeling of spirituality, yet not for an external Godhead or supernatural influence. The spiritual essence is born out of life experience and suffering perhaps? All a person needs to do is evolve into an individuated, whole being within the cycle of life and death as a human. What are the responses from the readers?

THE OPIUM POPPY

Summer bees are drawn as magnets to the gentle nectar of her soft purple flowers, as she hides the dark secret of life and death. I have smoked the pipe of dreams, and basked in sweet euphoria. The humble flower that rests in the summer field evolves into a capsule that is both the key to transcendence, and spiritual oneness. The ultimate price you may pay is that she will consume your soul and eat away at the bodily form. One or two encounters with the Queen of Flowers will waken you to her deathly majesty.