COYOTE IS COMPLETELY AWARE OF HER WORLD……. Take a moment and peer into the eyes of this coyote photographed by Janet Kessler. And try to feel how she is in her world and how she experiences it fully. How fully do we experience our world? Last week I was leaving Bowdoin College after a…
DetailsWILD MUSTANGS …. AND COYOTE…. When I give my Coyote presentation to our communities in Maine, I include historical perspectives…. What happened when the Europeans invaded the New World. And what did they bring with them when they came….they brought their world view. And their actions and behaviors were the expressions of it. And that…
DetailsDO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THESE TWO COYOTES ARE EXPRESSING THEIR AFFECTION TO EACH OTHER ….. OR DO YOU BELEIVE THAT ONLY WE HUMANS CAN DO THIS? Because what you believe will shape your actions. So our science keeps seeking to know our wild ones in ways we never could imagine. And the “knowing” is not merely what…
DetailsA CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM ~ This children’s book written by Jonathan London, tells a simple yet very powerful story about our relationships with the Wild. It is the child that guides his father into understanding his role in living well with carnivores on his farm. Our children are looking to us to create a…
Details“REFLECT ON WHO WE REALLY ARE BENEATH THE LAYERS CIVILIZATION HAS IMPOSED ON US.” Cristina Eisenberg Not so long ago I needed to travel by plane, and I felt almost suffocated by the technology being used all around me. Everywhere in the airports and on the plane people’s faces were in their IPads, their computers,…
DetailsThis wonderful photo by Debbie DiCarlo titled “Howling Lesson” depicts young Coyote pups talent for song, as they join their mother in the happy event. We shall be hearing more of Coyote’s song now that Spring will soon be here….and the pups will soon be born. So I wish to share a piece written by…
Details“In the beginning of all things, Wisdom and Knowledge were with the Animals, for Tirawa, the One Above, did not speak directly to man. He sent certain Animals to tell men that he showed himself through the beasts, and that from them, and from the stars and the sun and the moon should man learn.…
DetailsWHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE WILD? Relationships are always expressed in our behaviors….and so our lives can be filled with rich, life enhancing relationships, or they can be filled with emptiness expressed in hatred and violence to other life. As a biologist, I seek to share life enhancing relationships between our humanity and our…
DetailsCOYOTE ~ SURVIVING IN THE COLD OF WINTER Thoughts as you take in this image…. Coyote ~ they hold the answers to questions we have not even learned to ask … Coyote ~ they are teaching us to make discoveries about ourselves… Do we understand our true role on the Earth…if not, how can we…
DetailsCOYOTE ~ THE SURVIVOR This poignant scene by photographer Jerry Mercier opens a window of survival for us humans to look into. Here Coyote is striving to take some minimal nourishment from the frozen leg bone of a deer….the flesh long since gone from it. In Winter, carnivores starve to death ….and only…
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