Diversionary events

In common with just about everybody else in UK I have been distracted by our 'real winter'.
Opposite my home there is a dairy farm and the yard is a focus for the local bird life during hard weather as food scraps, insects and shelter in the barns are available - this picture of the 'congregation' in the usual tree sums it up. We also have a local Buzzard I am just itching to get a pic of when he occasionally sits on a nearby post.

Streaming existence

Today the BBC News site carried an item on 'Childhood'
It brought to mind several episodes of thought ...
There are issues I remember from my early years, such as the sense of exclusion and having to wait patiently to become a 'grown up'. Later a realisation that we are a social organism. Without groups of at least 2 in the first place we do not exist!
We have a human skill to understand and manage by subdividing...time into millenia right down to parsecs, lifetime down to babyhood, childhood, teenhood,adulthood.
It is easy to lose the holistic sense of self, an individual in the continuum of our lifetime, even easier to lose the sense of group identity of the species that over arches all of us. I have all my life had a conflicted set of concepts ...individual ambitions as against a sense of stewardship responsibilities, how I envy those who reconcile this early in their lives. The news report (link above) makes a good deal of the problems of overemphasis on individuality and its effect on young humans can this be a route to a new social sanity at last?