My family and relatives occupy three of them. It’s a three story walk-up, a modest building fronted with brown tarred shingles like you only see on roofs nowadays. SAFINA: We live in a tenement flat in Brooklyn. From WaitWhat and Thrive Global, this is Meditative Story. In this series, we blend immersive, first-person stories with mindfulness prompts to give you a deep sense of wellbeing at any time of the day. In today’s Meditative Story, Carl draws on his decades of studying and living with animals, and touches on the question that has fascinated him from a young age: How different are they from us really? But more importantly his work has brought the majesty and mystery of nature to countless people of all ages. ROHAN GUNATILLAKE: With an expertise in ecology, Carl Safina has written extensively about the living world over the years, and has won a whole host of awards and recognition. We are, simply and innocently, seeing eye to eye, recognizing the “each” in each other. My father reads the sign to me: “This is a Steller’s sea eagle.” This is not a fierce, mindless creature. Struck by its piercing eyes, gigantic feet and claws, and enormous brown and white feathers. As we stroll through the exhibits, I find myself standing beside a large cage with an eagle almost my size perched inside. CARL SAFINA: One weekend my parents take me to the Bronx Zoo.
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