Walk With the Animals

Driving down the gravel road to the mailboxes and then a “stage right” to town, I saw an antelope staring at me. It was then that the thought occurred to me that the antelope out number the people in Montana. It’s almost guaranteed that in one day you will see more antelope than you will people.

The antelope here run in groups of fifteen plus and don’t care if their blocking roads or holding up traffic. After all, we humans are the minority here so why should they care? So, if you ever hear a rumor about the wildlife outnumbering the people in Wyoming, believe it because it is true. I think there is a two to one ratio here, which is why I would never move. We may not make the news and we may not have a lot of people here or anything to do, but the wildlife (antelope) are well worth being here.

I feel since we’ve moved here and now with the horses , I know I’ve come home.Out in nature unknown places, somewhere close to our Heavenly Father and all things free. We I can’t live separate from all other species. They are the soul of me. Let’s hear it for passion that shakes us up, wakes us up, and hopefully makes us feel a little strange.

Dylan Thomas wrote:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light…

He speaks of our awakening at the end of days, and feeling that so much is left undone.

I say let us be awake and wild every day.
Let us see infinite possibility all around us, here and now.
And let it whisper to us from beyond the next hill, and the next sunrise.
Let us not give in to the dying that we suffer daily when we fall into tired, empty habits.
Let us not listen to the voices that ask us to always speak in a measured, mediocre way.

Can I get a high five? Shabbat shalom friends, trot on, trot on.