“Guineas” are a type of fowl, similar to chickens but a little wilder and more independent. They are also called barnyard watchdogs because of the raucous noise they will make at any changes going on around them. Next to our peacocks people like them the best of all our “feathered friends”. They will greet you when you arrive, wait around and hope that you will feed them, and lacking that will run off together, always staying in a group. They range far and wide, up to a quarter mile or further away, and yet suffer few loses, because there will always be a several in the group who are “on guard” for any sign of harm to the flock. How those guards are picked is another mystery of nature, because they change thru-out the day. All of nature declares the necessity of the “group”, the us versus the them. The “self” is real and remains, but survives only in harmony with the “us”. Another reminder from God.
