Nature’s Magic ~

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On this day ~

Señora Volpe {Fox} showed up this morning. I looked up from the tea kettle to see her golden eyes peering at me across the garden. As our eyes locked, she darted behind a tree, adopting the quintessentially foxlike position of camouflage behind a tree, with one eye exposed.

I watched her in stillness, enjoying the glow of sunlight dappling her red fur and the graceful movement of her black boots as she moved along the back fence, camouflaged all the while.

“You can live anywhere and in any conditions. Remember your adaptability,” flowed through my heart’s receptive antennae. Communication with the wildies, for me, has never been an exchange of words but an energy exchange that happens essence to essence, heart to heart.

All in a flash, I remembered the fox who used to den in the hill beside our house. Every year, she denned up, had, and nurtured her kits in the privacy of a hollow hill. I could catch a glimpse of the protective sweep of her abundant tail if I leaned far enough over the edge of the balcony that ran the length of the back of our house, facing the woods. In those moments, I gladly received the joy that comes from acknowledging another living creature in her natural habitat.