There's a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins called "As Kingfishers Catch Fire". The title itself is such an evocative image, and I was reminded of it while watching these kōtare foraging in the last light of day. But there's a line in the poem which reads:⠀
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"Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came"⠀
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Birds go about their lives, we define them by what they do - their behaviours. We are the same. We become our actions, we become what we make ourselves through our experiences, in how we interact with the world around us. ⠀
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So do what you love, and make yourself who you want to be. ⠀
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