🐦 TREE 158: How to pigeon 3 – follow someone else’s path

Did you know that as well as using the sun and Earth’s magnetic field (something about iron crystals in their beaks) to navigate, pigeons also use landmarks and will travel along roads and motorways, changing directions at junctions to find their way home?

We glorify those who forge their own path and do things completely differently but it’s bloody hard work to do it all the time. Who wants to make a new road beside an existing one?

Be more pigeon. Don’t be afraid to follow the paths that you like which others have taken before you. It’s about finding who has already gone where you want to go. And also giving yourself the permission to turn off at the next junction if it no longer suits you.

This week’s guest author and photographer is Christine Gill. A thing about Christine is that her Google is never broken. If she needs to do a thing and someone else has already done it (or something similar), she will find it and then implement it with her own twist. She knows more about pigeons, crows, chickens, adoption, autism, FASD, Deaf culture, baking – I could keep going but I won’t – than 95% of people. She knows because she’s not bothered about following someone else’s path.

Today Jeff has really run with the theme of following the path of others. He’s thought, ‘Oh, like sheep!’ and chosen a song that sounds like persistent bleating. Enjoy!

The Memory of TREE playlist – every song from every email: