The Bird in My Window and What is The Meaning of All This?

Tammy Nelson
7 min readMar 31, 2020

What is the meaning of all this?

Last week a robin flew into my kitchen window. It hovered and scratched and beat its wings against the glass.

I stood and watched as it stared at me through the window, its head turned to the side, its red belly pumping with its effort to get through, into my world. Then it flew away.

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Tammy Nelson

Dr Tammy Nelson is a Sex and Couples Therapist, a TEDx speaker, host of The Trouble with Sex podcast and author of six books including Open Monogamy.