last night; 3:14am Brother Bear dances into my chicken coop, rips off the roost door and consumes our precious “Hanu” (as in Hanuman) before i run naked into the cold night, wielding a flashlight and barking like a mad dog possessed to drive the bruin back into the night…
wish ilg Go(o)dspeed tomorrow in the DWC Championship Road Race…likely in the rain/wind…will be using all my Apache Trainings (see above pic for precisely what my chi-ldhood Wolf Guru looked like…courtesy of Joy Kilpatrick). It’s a Blessing to race at this level, at this age, after such a Blessed Life…you too! Count Thy Blessings…Mindfulness or else….
This M(om)ent… Dewachen; “Daddy,can you PUHLEEEEZE bring home this Leech for me as a pet?” Daddy; “Seriously?” insert the all-too-predictable moments whereupon the precious Daughter convinces Daddy to bring home a Leech as her pet from a high alpine lake, get it into water from the Animas and put it into the unused fish bowl […]
“Daddy?”
“Yes, Sweetheart?”
“My Snake’s name is Strikey and I’m gonna keep him forever in our yard, okay?”
“Uhhh…okay…did you say the Mantra to Strikey?”
“Om Mani Padme Hung!”
“Awesome…okay…we’ll find a place in the backyard where Strikey can live. Why did you choose to call him, ‘Strikey?”
“Because he likes to strike, but it’s okay because…
it’s that time of the year in Durango…
been mowing the DandyLions and have been stepping in bear cub scat! that’s right…for the first time in four springs since moving back to Durango, my backyard is puncuated with bear CUB scat! there is always a lot of nocturnal sounds here, beside the lusciously deep Ujjaya of the still wild, Animas River still flowing strong with spring runoff…
so, basically, ilg rescued the Snake Being (who soon became, Strikey Snakey Ilg) and put him/her into a box whereupon, arriving home, Dewa promptly lost him as she let Strikey out onto our backyard whereupon ilg rests assured Strikey is now our official Gardner Snake Garden Protector of our garden residing happily beneath our wood pile…
Snake Medicine is the medicine of, as my treasured Native American students will re-mind ilg, Transmutation, and that Snake teaches us to
this was in my inbox after a loooong day of early morning solo meditation/pranayama/yoga-asana into 90-minute SPIN/CORE class taught by pro triathlete and friend, Marisa Asplund, into a ski waxing clinic/classic ski/skate ski workout with Kinlani brother; Warrior Leaf into ice-skating with my girls..phewww…can ilg tell you – and especially to DawaGhati – how much this Animal Medicine pic helped me tonight, running on fumes, to Eagle UP to the evening’s work?!? enjoy…
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