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Greetings Earthlings
Bears are on the move because of a population boom. Older males chase young bears, especially young male bears, out of their territories.
A local man’s dog pulled on her leash to get into the woods. A bear of yearling size ran up the trail.
A jogger nearly came face-to-face with a larger bear, still not full-grown.
A disk jockey on a local radio station felt obliged to repeat bear reports from three neighborhoods.
Thanks to multiple reports, those place names are common knowledge. Unfortunately, bears in urban areas either move on quickly or meet a sad fate.
Remember the old saying, “a fed bear is a dead bear.”
I don’t usually repeat the place names of bear sightings, wishing to protect their gall bladders and paws. Poaching is still a big deal in Amerika.
I wish our bears all the luck they will need as they descend into civilization.
Those who came in past years have not fared well. One charged through a soccer game at Miller Park and was later shot by authorities. The bear’s identifying tag telegraphed the phrase, “Repeat visitor.”
Like her namesake companions, the celestial bear is nearly invisible here in winter, near the horizon. Some folklore says she is asleep in her den.
Do bears in their dens dream? I never dream of bears, but I have wandered, would they tell me their secrets then? Some folklore tells of the bear mother, a woman whose half-bear children became great hunters and teachers.
For more information on bear mythology, consult The Sacred Paw: Bears in Nature, Myth and Folklore by Shepherd and Sanders, or They Dance in the Sky by Monroe and Williamson.
On June 5, two fledgling birds played tag among the understory trees. Their raspy calls identified them as wrens. Carolina wrens, they are called, though they range much more widely than the boundaries of those two states.
Soon, the scorpion will rise in the Southern sky. Orion has vanished except for those few hours when he still shines brightly in the west. Folklore and mythology tell us they cannot be in the sky at the same time because of an ancient conflict.
Joseph Campbell would likely say that folklore and myth are the same. For more of that, see his book or video, The Power of Myth.
Solstice approaches, and baby birds will be grown.
Greetings Earthlings
Bears are on the move because of a population boom. Older males chase young bears, especially young male bears, out of their territories.
A local man’s dog pulled on her leash to get into the woods. A bear of yearling size ran up the trail.
A jogger nearly came face-to-face with a larger bear, still not full-grown.
A disk jockey on a local radio station felt obliged to repeat bear reports from three neighborhoods.
Thanks to multiple reports, those place names are common knowledge. Unfortunately, bears in urban areas either move on quickly or meet a sad fate.
Remember the old saying, “a fed bear is a dead bear.”
I don’t usually repeat the place names of bear sightings, wishing to protect their gall bladders and paws. Poaching is still a big deal in Amerika.
I wish our bears all the luck they will need as they descend into civilization.
Those who came in past years have not fared well. One charged through a soccer game at Miller Park and was later shot by authorities. The bear’s identifying tag telegraphed the phrase, “Repeat visitor.”
Like her namesake companions, the celestial bear is nearly invisible here in winter, near the horizon. Some folklore says she is asleep in her den.
Do bears in their dens dream? I never dream of bears, but I have wandered, would they tell me their secrets then? Some folklore tells of the bear mother, a woman whose half-bear children became great hunters and teachers.
For more information on bear mythology, consult The Sacred Paw: Bears in Nature, Myth and Folklore by Shepherd and Sanders, or They Dance in the Sky by Monroe and Williamson.
On June 5, two fledgling birds played tag among the understory trees. Their raspy calls identified them as wrens. Carolina wrens, they are called, though they range much more widely than the boundaries of those two states.
Soon, the scorpion will rise in the Southern sky. Orion has vanished except for those few hours when he still shines brightly in the west. Folklore and mythology tell us they cannot be in the sky at the same time because of an ancient conflict.
Joseph Campbell would likely say that folklore and myth are the same. For more of that, see his book or video, The Power of Myth.
Solstice approaches, and baby birds will be grown.
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