Except for pictures, I have never seen a red kite; I have heard of them but have never had the pleasure of seeing one in nature. The other day, I was talking to my good friend AJ Ashley who lives in the UK. AJ has been visiting an area on a regular basis with her...
I had not really given this much thought in the past but the Sparrow must have been one of my mother’s power totems. I was reminded of her attraction to this bird of somewhat lowly status in today’s society a couple of weeks ago by an event that I will...
I have been sitting for the last few hours watching in wonder the activity surrounding a pine tree in my backyard. It does not surprise me that it is known as the peacemaker of the Standing People. It is a safe haven for many of the birds who visit my backyard...
Over the course of the last year or so I have been reading the Cork O’Connor series of books by William Kent Krueger. The plots of each book involve a crime that has occurred on or near a fictional Ojibwe Reservation in Minnesota. I know, telling you about a...
I had not really considered that there was a bee totem until just a few days ago. I’m not sure why it occurred to me to even look it up. Well, that is not entirely true because I was meditating on a frame of mind that I have been in when a bee caught my...
I came by to learn a bit about why fox might be visiting my home. We are seeing fox in…