About

Greetings from the Nest

I’m glad you decided not to fly by, but to land for a moment.

I’d like to share my thoughts regarding my ‘flock’ and the ‘feathers’ that bind us.

A bird’s flock was once of great importance, the values, experiences and adult members of the flock taught the hatchlings everything they needed to know to face life.

Over the years each new generation of hatchlings that grew to adulthood seemed to push their hatchlings out of the nest earlier and failed to share their knowledge and experiences to protect and prepare the next generation. The lessons and values of the previous generation, slowly being lost in the rush to grow up, leave the nest and venture out on one’s own.

Flocks began to splinter and the sense of community and belonging began to evaporate. Until today, when the values of generations past seem to be lost, cast aside, like molting feathers.

I strive to maintain the values and lessons of my flock in my own nest today. The way I fly, care for and tend to my nest, raise my young and commune with my mate are representative of the lessons of my flock, both positive and negative.

I’d like to share my migration and the lessons of my flock with you, as a study of ‘nest life’ in America today.

I invite anyone who takes a moment to land here to leave chirps and tweets, sharing your thoughts.

R. G. Maines

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I’m a 40 something housewife and mother who has been blogging for about 3 years now.

I have profiles on MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Tagged and have blogspot pages as well as wordpress pages. I started venturing away from the social networking sites because of the constant ‘drama’ that takes place on them and began compartmentalizing my interests and causes into individual blog sites, as a means for me to organize my thoughts and to share my opinions, hoping to get some feedback from others in an effort to learn something new and benefit from different perspectives.

After trying to manage and keep up with all those blogs and sites, I decided to pull together some of my blogs onto this one site, sort of a clearing house of all the things important to me, with the intention of eventually deleting those other blog sites.

So, this is a bit of an experiment.

Welcome to my Nest.