Posted by SLS on May 19, 2011, at 13:35:51
In reply to wild things, posted by floatingbridge on May 19, 2011, at 9:59:39
> Last night driving up my drive my headlights caught a funny little creature waddling at top speed. A skunk, with out the sense to move off the driveway but instead galloped up. Yikes! not to the house. Finally she scrambled into the woods. I stopped the car and watched her go.
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> Where? Home?
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> What would that be like, to live outside, without owning or renting, with a changing seasonal home? Or a territory?I have no idea. (And I don't include the human homeless population of my area in this. No irony intended. God bless them.)
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> I watched the skunk disappear into the
> night with pure wonder.
Sunshine in the middle of the night.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.
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