©® ' Hope' ... Oil by by Irrira

Old fashioned was once a weather forecast; Mother Nature's children could pass on what knowledge they had gained over time, through all her own weather's Life Cycles.

In today's age, some of these humans, and especially the creatures, still use what might be termed 'old fashioned'. Observing them we can learn a lot by taking note! No-one tells the sharks and other sea creatures to dive deeper under a storm, or seek shelter.

Those close enough to nature see the reactions in the animals, as much as in tiny insects. Where there are much bigger upheavals as tidal waves, even the larger of all our creatures, the elephants, point the way, by turning in their tracks to head for higher ground. The earth's vibration is a great measuring system to creatures attuned to their natural environment.

Watch the ants, and how instinct before heavy rains, sends them climbing higher up tree trucks for cover. Especially in tropical areas where it is more likely to be longer and heavier periods of rainfall. Listen for birds; sometimes not heard on a daily basis, when they fly squawking, or calling in small flocks; to wherever they too know to go.

See how the water birds tend to know before the rains, even if it hasn't rained for years in some areas of dry desert. They have to fly overhead, and do make a sound, even if heading for salt pans, to congregate where now there are lakes and waterways, due to rain. Who tells them there has been a ten-year drought?

Be prepared for field mice who seek shelter - sometimes in a home - out of the winters cold. They are clever enough to know there will be a food supply. If you are where the polar bear or any other live, note when they begin to fatten up for hibernation with the computer in their own brain. Keep an eye on the beavers when they start damming their own water supply. Or when the squirrels begin to store nuts and acorns.

Where there are hurricanes or volcanic rumbling; whether in the sky or earth, creatures feel the vibrations, and act upon these. An earthquake [before they were drowned out by 'noise pollution'] can even be detected with an extremely high-pitched whistle, once learned. Noise pollution plays a very big role to the human ear, and even psyche, not being able to tune into the finer vibrations of nature.

Detecting a change in the atmospherics as we did once, when instincts had to, is seldom found in lives too busy today. With all the closed in spaces of artificial lighting; permanent sound in music and humans blocked to outside sound; one can spend a day in a shopping mall, having left home with blue skies, and when emerging from the mall, there is a raging storm. The old fashioned forecast here is 'be prepared'.

Fishermen through time learned to get to know the seasons which bring forecast, even in migrations of what type of seafood they fished for. They also used their own weather understandings, to forecast of what to look out for. There was a saying, 'Red in the morning was a sailor's warning; and red at night was a sailor's delight.' Maybe there was more truth in this than they were granted, as so many went out in their small vessels at night or day accordingly. It would have been an inbred cycle within a fishing village or community to look out for all types of natural phenomena.

Any tuned into Mother Nature, are able to have a good degree of forecast. Nature's old fashioned way holds no material possessions to watch over! Yet who can outstrip her ways? We can only begin to learn them; and listen. Maybe it's her way of saying, 'leave some space for me.'

We seem to forget how much we neglect what is causing more and more unpredictables. Perhaps we could bring back a few of the reliable sources she offered all creatures including human awareness.

LITTLE ADI-EL 

        ©®Photography of Adi-el and Poetry by Ish-i.  

     ©®Photo of Adi-el by Ish-i & article by Irrira.

If we are as full of unconditional love as our pet dog's heart is, we only have to watch, observing their doggy language, without them barking.

When at home, they are able to manifestly go to the door, or come and sit patiently to tell us if we are busy writing, or whatever we are doing. If it's a game they would like, waiting wide eyed and ready for action with a long beloved toy in their mouth, speaks volumes. Maybe we are going out, and they don't have to bark to say they have already noticed, and can either express they are staying home today, or are prepared to go for another adventure, being available to go out the door too.

They tell us when they have drunk all their water and need more, and are also able to say thank you with just a look. Can inform us when hungry - if they need to - yet if something's cooking which they can smell is substantially meaty, they consent without a sound with great anticipation they too would like some, for a change from their doggy diet. Sitting quietly, their countenance says it all.

When tired, they can announce to us, just by putting themselves off to bed quietly without uttering more, and stay till morning. Their breathing can be so human it is uncanny. If they want to climb under the bed covers when it's cold at night, they have a manner of gently reminding us by nudging their way to curl up like a pack. They also interpret whether this is permitted or not, quietly retrieving, though an owner would make an effort to see their bedding was warm enough to return to.

Dogs speak many things with their eyes from fun to feeling sick. Realize 100% when  - if we must  - medicate them. They can certainly be wise without a word, when a concealed all-wormier tab is in little meat balls! They are not dumb by not barking.

If diabetic, they learn to softly put their head down in readiness after their daily meals for their Insulin Injections. Or, if having an odd not-so-well-day, they interpret our caring when a syringe without a needle helps to get fluids into their mouth to prevent dehydration. They quietly comprehend when one is helping them. With regular check-ups or inoculations at a Vet they don't feel afraid with, they show they are willing participants, with tails wagging when greeting and trusting. Equally they can relate any discomfort with any new Veterinary surroundings and strangers

If we also find one has no choice but to leave them at well cared for kennels, it helps them by meeting the owners 2-3 times ahead, to become familiar with the owners and their surrounds. Assistance in prevention of fretful barking when left, gives way instead to being happy to know where they are. Helping our dogs, makes a parting easier, and sending a gift to transmit our silent absence to them, is great. Their sense of smell that we have handled it, plus a card read to them by the owner they have grown to love, they receive in silent reasoning, words associated with their owners terminology.

They intercommunicate their love of the wide open freedom of deserts, salt or water lakes and seas, beaches or snowy mountains, dams or water ways, by always showing their appreciation with a broad smiling pant, even without barking. And are as equally able to say just through their actions and expressions what they cannot handle, nor like. It is for us to learn from them, as they speak magnitudes if we care to interpret..

Happiness can be their waking mood in the mornings when saying hello, by reading deep into our sleeping minds with their own telepathy, and waking us up simply via the depth of their psyche. Melancholy is their face which knows when it's good bye, or miserable when not well. But never to recognize our own dogs quiet articulate communication would leave us the speechless ones, while they give everything, while conveying all.

Dogs can be read like a book, through their facial expressions or body language. They are a priceless mind to mind insight into their world, leaving us with a smile of their faithful, inaudible, companionship.