Spirit Animals

Spirit Animals: HER MAJESTY, THE COUGAR

January 27, 2014

I stayed at camp, alone, to journal and spend time by the low-flowing Gila river. The sapling cottonwoods I sat cross-legged underneath were failing to provide shade as the sun steadily moved across the sky. The round gravel of the riverbank was growing hot, and the grackles carried on in an otherwise quiet bosque. In a pause between written sentences I stared blankly off across the river and into the forest. The mosaic of green was strangely interrupted by the…

Spirit Animals: SEAGULL

January 7, 2014

Birds, Spirit Animals

Seagull Spirit Animal Why do you spot “sea” gulls thousands of miles from the ocean? Do you know if all sea gulls look alike or how many places on earth they can be found? Have you stopped to think where you would find a seagull’s nest or chicks? Have you considered how gulls fish? These were all questions I didn’t have the answer to before the summer of 1999. Then I was offered the opportunity to work with a PhD student…

Spirit Animals: MASTER POLAR BEAR

December 30, 2013

Mammals, Spirit Animals

His world is frozen, with landmarks often hard to find. To make matters more challenging, the wind constantly moves the drifts and the floes carrying his plans and thoughts asunder. He does not have a preference for one way, the way, but rather relies on the wisdom of the ages and the abundance of the underworld to carry him through. He’s been doing this for a long time you see. He was the one who knew who we were before…

Spirit Animals: MYSTERIOUS RAVEN

November 12, 2013

Birds, Spirit Animals

Raven Spirit Animal This beautiful black creature brushes mountainsides with wingtips. His black eyes drink in landscapes as subtle breezes hold him aloft. Raven’s undeniable determination is audible in the whir of his heavy wingbeats. On occasion he joins with a troop of two or three others to cackle at the wind and tease the beasts on the ground below. His voice cuts through the forest’s silence. It echoes like an inside-out gurgle of water down a seep-hole. His call…

Spirit Animals: MAGPIE the MYTHOLOGIST

October 14, 2013

Birds, Spirit Animals

Magpie goes about her business, chattering to and fro. Both of the old world and of the new, she wears her black and white costume with her brothers and sisters going on about life as if everything were normal. Then a ray of sunshine glimmers over the tips of her wings and tail and a burst of royal blue radiates. She knows this and she is clever. She does not worry if the rain will come or go. She is…

Spirit Animals: MOUSE the MONK

September 2, 2013

Book - Gracious Wild, Mammals, Spirit Animals

Mouse Symbolism “There in the dried grass and leaves was a brown field mouse. He was only a couple steps away, nearly under our noses. Poised on the doorstep of his den, he stood twitching his whiskers at the woman and the hawk. He looked like a country mouse lost in the city of towering thistle stalks. The mouse’s brown coat blended in with the ground cover. If it weren’t for my sharp-eyed hawk companion I’d easily have missed the…

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Spirit Animals: THE FROG PRINCESS

July 18, 2013

Amphibians & Reptiles, Spirit Animals

She is in the world but not of it. She senses the shifting tide of her emotions and that of her brothers and sisters singing in the marsh. She is in her feelings but not of them. She embraces the song while it refuses to define her. Water still clings to her porous flesh creating a sheen on her persona. She wiggles her toes through the dry mud on the shore. The Earth satisfies her too. She contemplates the lily…

Spirit Animals: LEWIS’S WOODPECKER

June 3, 2013

Birds, Spirit Animals

He has a barbed tongue for snagging insects from holes in trees. He has two toes facing forward and two facing backward, like all woodpeckers. His stiff tail feathers make it possible for him to lean his tail along a tree trunk to climb erect. He can drill a hole through wood as well as any of his cousins. Still one gets the impression that the Lewis’s woodpecker is distinctly trying NOT to be a woodpecker. This woodpecker’s namesake, Meriwether Lewis…

Spirit Animals: MR. BADGER

May 7, 2013

Mammals, Spirit Animals

He prefers only to leave his burrow when necessary. He would rather not encounter anyone besides his next meal when he’s out. His responses to inquiries from others are gruff. If he decides to respond at all. He would prefer to go through the effort of adeptly and quickly digging a new hole than to face whomever has decided to pester him. Whoever does push too hard will find that he does have a backbone. When cornered Mr. Badger…

Spirit Animals: MOTHER SPIDER

April 15, 2013

Bugs, Spirit Animals

Spider Symbolism Spider spirit animal tests the space in front of her by delicately lifting the front one of her eight legs. Her furry appendage tenderly caresses the air feeling the breath of the forest collectively and the movements of the creatures around her individually. The only thing that gives away her active, sentient thoughts is the small, almost nervous, twitching of the two feelers on either side of her mouth. This is mother spider. She weaves webs, climbs trees,…

Spirit Animals

Spirit Animals: HER MAJESTY, THE COUGAR

Spirit Animals: SEAGULL

Spirit Animals: MASTER POLAR BEAR

Spirit Animals: MYSTERIOUS RAVEN

Spirit Animals: MAGPIE the MYTHOLOGIST

Spirit Animals: MOUSE the MONK

Spirit Animals: THE FROG PRINCESS

Spirit Animals: LEWIS’S WOODPECKER

Spirit Animals: MR. BADGER

Spirit Animals: MOTHER SPIDER

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