Isabella the Hummingbird

This is the story of Isabella, the ruby-throated hummingbird. Isabella is always in a hurry, rushing this way and that, squeaking here, squeaking there. She knows exactly where she is going and what she is doing. She can move her wings fifty times in one second and rarely stops to rest. Isabella is busy, busy, busy …

You might think that Isabella should just slow down, but she cannot.  She is made this way - born to fly forward and backward, to hover in place, and to chatter and squeak in the Land of Terra. If Isabella were to change her ways, she would not be her true self. Perhaps, instead of thinking that birds and turtles and people should change, we should just accept the creatures they are meant to be …