Last night I slept behind an abandoned building that had formerly housed a kickboxing school. Call me superstitious, but I thought that perhaps the energy of the former owners and students would help protect me while I slept.
I did sleep, although it was fitfully. Last night it was about 24-27 degrees cold, and I had to sleep on a concrete slab. I went to sleep in my jeans and short sleeve shirt and used my leather jacket to cover my head and the upper half of my body. I awoke about every hour to hour and a half, violently shivering form the cold. At one point my feet must have frozen, because I had a hard time feeling them when I awoke in the morning.
When I say awoke in the morning, I don’t mean that I woke on my own. What woke me was something landing on the top of the leather jacket right where my head was. I was startled awake and defensively threw my jacket up and away from my head, which had the effect of startling whatever had been on top of my jacket. When I glanced up (hoping it wasn’t some rapid dog or some-such) I saw a bird flying away to land on an electric wire. Upon landing, it turned back to me and cawed, whether in laughter or in derision I don’t know. Perhaps it was mother nature’s way of telling me that I need to wake up and get moving. Either way, I think that mother nature is not near out of touch with us as we are with her.
3 comments:
crows are very smart. it was mother nature looking out for you. hehe!
very cool. God bless.
What a story, yes in life things can happen but the animals can understand those things much better than us. Hope we all could have just a little bit of those instincts.
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