The Wolves* by Susan Eirich
Animal Tales, Blog | July 8, 2011
After nine days traveling in the silence, tuned to eternal rhythms, we arrived at a lake to settle in for a week. Moments after our ar-rival, on the far side of the lake, three wolves emerged from the forest.
They casually loped along the edge of the water, stopping to sniff; explore, play. They trotted along the entire length of the lake from end to end and around, slowly disappearing into the trees.
A long, unhurried visit; beings arisen from this untrammeled place. My immediate reaction was an unexpected upwelling of tears. It felt as if they had come to welcome me.
Being in a place so vast; so silent; so whole, lets deeper things come to the fore; makes it possible to tune to fainter energies. Did they sense me because I love them so and come to visit? Did I call them without realizing it, physical wolves responding to spirit?
The wolves came again the morning I was leaving. Perhaps it was just coincidence, nothing more, their coming just as I arrived ; coming again just as I left. But how do we ever know such things? If we see it as a coincidence, and it isn’t, then what have we missed!
*Excerpt from Into the Space and Silence by Susan B. Eirich, a book inspired by a three week trip into the Muskwa-Ketchika, the most remote area of the Yellowstone to Yukon Wildlife Corridor
Nomad Lives by Jennifer Sauer
It did not take me long to read “Into the Space and Silence,” but the depth and aliveness linger on, embracing me with a satisfying, energetic hug!
When I got to the part on “Invitations,” it felt as if spirit was saying, “There’s something here for you.”
Maybe it’s our love of wildlife and our connection to the rescued ones who need our voices. Maybe it’s the sweet love of silence that tugs at our heart with a gentle or insistent, “Wake up.” Maybe it’s the whispers through the delightful leaves that sway our souls to show up and enter the dance. Maybe, it is that I am being called to sit and be with you across a dancing camp-fire.
I don’t know for sure.
I do know that my heart is responding and the answer is “Yes.”
Comment by Nicola Karesh — July 27, 2011 @ 12:27 am