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Do these two things to be happy as a lark

February 10, 2021

Happy as a lark

Last summer about an hour before sunrise, my husband and I would sit on the back porch with our coffee and wait for the sunrise. Most mornings there was one bird who sang before the others.

Turns out it was probably a Lark. On the site All About Birds, they write “Horned Larks sing a delicate musical song particularly in the early morning as early as an hour and a half before sunrise.”

Whether it’s a Horned Lark, Meadowlark, Skylark, or Crested, they all sing with abandon and abundance. They embrace joy and are unguarded, carefree. 

Perhaps this is where the saying “happy as a Lark” originates.

I wonder if we sang early with abandon and embraced joy, we’d be happy as a lark too?

Today, when you pick up the pen or the brush or the camera, whatever your creative endeavor, do it with abandon and embrace the joy.

Be happy as a lark.

Filed Under: Art Projects Tagged With: feathered friends, secret life of birds, the 100 day project

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Bex Hall

Her writing has appeared in various online and print publications, most recently in Kerning, a literary magazine, and in the Stories of Hope Collection in Transplant Living. Her artwork has appeared and sold through the Grayson Gallery. She blogs here about creative life and creates in Studio BE overlooking the Ohio River. Her work in progress is a memoir about the secret life of objects.

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