This beautiful photograph of @x-rain and what he told us about it inspired me to tell this story that I share with you.

Thank you for readings and happy new year🐍

An instant on the meadow

The afternoon is sunny, and a cool breeze blows from the north and moves the ears of corn that, full of seeds, sway, dropping those that have matured enough to reach the ground and wait there with patience, that which thousands of years have taught them to prepare to germinate with the humidity of the first rains and produce multiple green shoots that will grow to form new ears.

But the law of nature has a way for everyone, and a flock of munias arrives fluttering to the meadow. They are a family of five, consisting of females and males, that go in search of food. On the highest branches, the chicks are waiting for them, which have already burst their shells and are catching them at the top of their lungs, making their parents desperate, as they leave in search of seeds.

The golden spikes open, and the strong beaks of the munias take from them the ripe seeds that will not reach the ground but will have a good purpose: to fill the crop with the hungry chicks.

And so plants, birds, breeze, and soil in this picture captured in an instant by the eye of man take the courses of life, further through time that does not stop.

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