Lovely Sean. Your struggle between respect, disdain, anger, admiration -- and the multiple lenses through which you see and engage with the natural world (farmer, ecologist, etc.) -- are so vivid, as is the character of our little fri/enemy. I particularly like the post-script. I was wondering if you were aware, at the time, of being in the midst of the story you were experiencing and that you would write about ... Indeed, the protagonists of our own stories, if only we are so aware. (Occassionally, when at a cross-roads, I imagine myself to be an author and ask myself, what would I want for this protagonist...lol....but only occasionally.) Well done!!
Lovely Sean. Your struggle between respect, disdain, anger, admiration -- and the multiple lenses through which you see and engage with the natural world (farmer, ecologist, etc.) -- are so vivid, as is the character of our little fri/enemy. I particularly like the post-script. I was wondering if you were aware, at the time, of being in the midst of the story you were experiencing and that you would write about ... Indeed, the protagonists of our own stories, if only we are so aware. (Occassionally, when at a cross-roads, I imagine myself to be an author and ask myself, what would I want for this protagonist...lol....but only occasionally.) Well done!!
My money's on the snowy owl. I think you owe him big time...