Yes, You Are The One
In case you are not sure, here's why.
Did you know that given a good food supply, squirrels can have two litters of baby squirrels a year?
Considering that our yard and woods are full of squirrel food of one kind or another, and by the time we lived in our house for seven years, fourteen generations of squirrels had been born.
On that seventh summer, something changed.
One afternoon, we watched a very long-tailed gray squirrel explore our deck. He was one of the new youngsters, and it was fun to watch him so full of curiosity.
Then he noticed the suet feeder.
Within minutes, he did something no other squirrel had done.
He discovered he could hang off it and eat his fill.
A few hours later, a red squirrel approached the deck and did the same thing.
Obviously, the long-tailed gray squirrel had made a fast trip into the woods and alerted everyone to a food source that had been there all along because not long after that, another squirrel made the trip to the deck and hung off the feeder to eat his fill.
One squirrel out of hundreds made a difference.
However, it didn’t end there.
The gray squirrel may have made the discovery, but the red squirrel carried the idea forward.
He began visiting the suet feeder every day, staring at me with curiosity but not fear as I politely waved him off the suet. His whole demeanor suggested that it was his, not mine.
Having discovered the suet feeder, he made his way to another deck, where he began studying our impenetrable sunflower feeder.
He would sit for hours looking for ways to conquer it. When he got tired, he lay on the deck rail studying the feeder with his head resting on his paws or completely flopped out over the railing.
Occasionally, he would wind up his tail and leap to the feeder roof, only to find it spinning. However, he was quick enough to summersault off before it made its complete revolution. Within seconds, he returned to studying it, undeterred by the rebuff.
He was the one.
He was the one who did not accept the general squirrel worldview and instead looked at everything differently.
He was the one who—once the new food source was discovered—continued to come to it with the expectation that it belonged to him.
He was the one who—although we changed the suet feeder to a squirrel-proof one—still took a few minutes a day to study it, looking for a way to once again feast on suet.
He was the explorer.
He was the consistent action-taker.
He was the patient one.
He was the one out of hundreds who expected more and pursued it, feeling that it was his right to do so.
I watched him one morning as he gazed at me with curious eyes, and I swear he asked me, “Are you the one?”
I hesitated before saying, “Yes, I am the one. But I am one of many who practice looking at every human worldview story and asking ourselves, ‘Is this true?’”
You, too, are the one.
We are the ones who examine stories told by countless generations to find out where they came from and if they lead to new territory or keep us locked in old beliefs.
We are the ones who, having learned of new discoveries, continue to return to them to see what else they have to offer.
We are the ones who go to our communities and let them know there is more than meets the eye.
We are the ones who know that what our senses tell us about only a tiny percentage of what is actually going on, and on top of that, it’s often not true.
Sometimes, we are famous in the world, but most often, we are known only within our families or communities.
But we are still the ones who make the difference.
As I watched that red squirrel, I celebrated that among the hundreds and thousands of people who are content with what they have been told—there are the ones who are not.
I celebrate you—because if you are reading this, I already know you are the one.
On a practical note, these are the two squirrel-raccoon-proof feeders we have used for over ten years. They are still undefeated. Roller Feeder and Life Long Feeders
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I love this so much! 😍. I and miss 🐿️ squirrels. We may go unnoticed in the larger world, but I see you.