Cheetah Alliance

Check Please!  Ordering to go . . . one reality.  Each day as I slip out of bed to the tune of my kitten, I don't know what it is I will find.  Yesterday morning it was a dove.  For the second time in two weeks, Yoda has killed a dove during the night and brought it inside to pluck.  The ants never sleep around this place and always find something to keep them busy. In the hopes of staying one step ahead, I've been working on some experiments.  I can't help wonder though, if it isn't the…

Oh how we want to save everything wild as we watch what human infringement has done to the brink of extinction of so many species of life.  I'm no exception; in fact feel the effects of human impact for the 'betterment' of life; an easier life; a safer life more than most.  I speak with the animals, insects, rocks and yes, even trees and plants in their language, not with black letters on a white page.  I speak this language that has no words from the heart and it is heard.  More…

Growing up in the 50's was an odd time for a middle-class America white girl.  I don't remember ever even seeing a black person except on television and the old black man at the top of our hill in Eckley Lane named Roy.  We called them negroes back then and they were always involved in riots in the south.  That was all I knew.  

When we moved back to California from Pennsylvania in 1968 and I entered high school, we had only one black student out of 3,200 students.  He was liked by…

My World!

　Nature has several important aspects. The Sun which gives the earth beings cosmic rays, The Earth itself and The Rain among others. The rains has a way of washing both the bad and the good down and letting the sun replenish whatever stands in nature. The resonance between the earth, the sun and the souls of nature is such a powerful force whom we as human beings can subconsciously try to euphoniously understand in our steadfast dreamy euphoria. We have been receiving constant…

August 19, 2008

Cheetah Feathers

As it turns out there had been a cheetah weaving around the trap near Jimmy’s place.  He found plenty track in early morning and after making sure I get my coffee and say a prayer for Montezuma to give me a break as we load into the vehicles and head out to the site.  He is there waiting for us, his bicycle leaning against a tree.  He shows us the track that leads around the road and into a gully.  He can see the track even though the…

Salama

I am ready to leave Nairobi the day after mom’s birthday but we have three more nights here.  I finally take a shower and manage to do some writing.  I haven’t been able to hold a pen since my episode with the razor.  So I sit cross legged on my bed in the warthog room and switch batteries on my Viao trying to recharge them.  I won’t be taking my computer to Salama.  There is no electricity there.   I am anxious to get the rest of the trip over with and go home to my soft,…