Featherweatherland Real Finches in a Magic Land

1
FeatherweatherlandReal Finches in a Magic Land
2
Oh, What a Month, Sensei!A Featherweatherland
story as told by CinnaMan (a Spice finch)

• Thank you, Sensei! Three of us males have
  fiances now.
• We had already picked out beautiful nests from a
  catalog that you bought for us and we started
  singing beautiful songs, hopped up and down a
  lot, did flight tricks, stretched our wings, and
  looked out the window (we have a window in front
  of our flight cage if someone hasnt seen the
  first page of our book) to see if any finches
  were watching us. We bathed twice a day instead
  of once a day. We all looked awesome. Then, we
  got together after we didnt see any potential
  mates, and asked you if we all could have a
  meeting.

3

• It was a great meeting, Sensei, because we found
  out that you are a baishakunin! We each put in
  our request for a wife, filled out the forms, had
  our background checks, our finances were
  carefully gone over, and you started looking for
  a suitable mate for each of us the next day. It
  didnt take long for you to locate a suitable,
  and beautiful, orange cheek manikin female and a
  beautiful, but shy, bronze wing manikin female.
  You even found a perfectly dotted and kind Spice
  finch female. That made three of us so very
  happy.

4

• You looked so many places for suitable Warbler,
  Cordon Bleu, and Star females. After a while you
  had to tell Starr, Kiley, and Blue that they
  would not have mates this season. We felt so
  sorry for them! It was hard, Sensei, because
  they were so unhappy. They said they understood
  how hard it is to find suitable mates but you
  could still see the unhappiness on their faces.
  Sometimes we cant have what we want the most,
  they said. I, personally, think they even cried
  because I could hear them at night.

5

• Sensei, how can you be happy when you get
  something and yet sad because your friends didnt
  get what they want? You told us that karma is a
  funny thing If all causes and conditions come
  together a certain way, a bird gets a mate. If
  all causes and conditions dont come together
  completely, a bird doesnt get a mate. You told
  us that we were not better finches than Blue,
  Starr, and Kiley. The causes and conditions and
  the results were, in part, because you could not
  locate potential mates no matter how hard you
  tried.

6

• One of the conditions you said, was that you
  refused to order mates for us on the internet
  because you could not be sure of their character
  and if they really did want to have husbands.
  One of the causes was that your friend, Donna
  Nakamura, doesnt raise finches anymore. After
  twenty years of raising finches, parrots, doves,
  and parakeets, she said she was getting too old
  to take good care of them and gave about a
  hundred of them to a friend in Idaho (who came
  and got all of them). All she has now are Zebra
  finches. You ran out of causes and conditions,
  didnt you, Sensei?

7

• The three of us who got fiances have been very
  kind to our potential mates. They dont seem to
  be in any hurry to cuddle up with us or even
  preen us on our necks. You tell us we have to be
  patient too, just like Kiley, Blue, and Starr.
  Just because we have potential mates doesnt mean
  that they are in a hurry to get married. They
  are checking us out too, arent they! Hopefully,
  it wont be too long before they realize that we
  males are all really going to be good Buddhist
  husbands.

8

• Why are we in such a hurry to get what we want,
  Sensei? Why dont we remember to thank you
  because some of us were badly treated before you
  got us and you took special care of us while we
  healedand you helped us learn how to be happy
  again? Why dont we remember to be grateful that
  we live in a wonderful place like
  Featherweatherland with all the food and water we
  need and which is the most gentle land in
  Visalia/Hanford? Why, why, why, Sensei, cant we
  have exactly what we want when we want it! Why?

9

• We know, Sensei, what are you going to say
  nextjust say Namoamidabutsu. You did tell us
  what that means. It means, We rely upon the
  Infinite Wisdom and Infinite Compassion of the
  Universe to guide us because we cant do it
  alone.
• Sensei, it is not helping.yet.
• Maybe we are still too young to understand.
• Namo Amida Butsu
• CinnaMan