Animal Stories

Bird Songs

by Samantha on May 17, 2012

The Birder turned his head to better hear the call. He listened as though his ears extended six feet, then smiled as the repetition of exact tone and glottal dissonance reached him. I watched his eyes follow the sound, and though he could not yet see the bird, he stood in patience, waiting for feather [...]

Freedom

by Samantha on July 1, 2008

This the story of a man named Jeff and his bird, Freedom. Ten years ago, a badly maimed baby eagle came to Jeff. She could not stand or fly. Both wings were broken, and even after surgery her left wing didn’t operate or open fully. Despite her emaciation and injuries, Jeff made the choice to [...]

Whale Of A Tale

by Samantha on March 12, 2008

This was a front page story in the San Francisco Chronicle. It relates the plight of a female humpback whale who had become entangled in a spider web of crab-traps and lines. She was weighted down by many pounds of traps that forced her to struggle to stay afloat, and there were hundreds of yards [...]

Soaring Above The Small Minded

by Samantha on February 24, 2008

At times of change we have opportunity and necessity to expand our vision(s). A dear friend sent me a Taoist parable which speaks of this in a wonderfully visual manner: ‘There is a great bird known as the Pieng. Its back appears as broad as a mountain range; its wings are like clouds across the [...]

Tagged as: angelic force, Animal Stories, believing, Great Pieng, imagination, Magical, pose to soar on, quail sight, small vision

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Lions In The Heat of Summer

by Samantha on August 16, 2007

In days of darkness, somewhere there is light. When we have lost faith, somehow, reason to hope appears. When we are most cruel, sometimes kindness prevails. A brief news bulletin from the provincial town, Beta Genet, 350 miles outside of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, tells of a twelve year old girl, missing for a week, who’d [...]

Tagged as: darkness waits, evil, gifts, guarding magic, light arrives, lion rescue, Sergeant Wondimu Wedajo, storytellers

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Punxsutawney Phill

by Samantha on February 2, 2006

Nothing against Aquarians, but February is not a cakewalk as months go. We have spent our money, and bills are due. Pipes are frozen, and you can’t smell spring. We have gained weight, and resolutions haven’t paid off yet. Taxes, like heating bills, loom large. Given that the above are true, what do we most [...]