I am wandering with the wee folk, collecting wild rose (Rosa aciculariso or R. nutkanapetals) for a rose petal vinaigrette.
Maybe some dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) leaves for a dandelion mustard.
I stop in a clearing between some birch (Betula neoalaskana) and black spruce (Picea mariana) because both boys want to pee.
And then I feel it.
I look about. There must be something, someone here... But I don't find the source of this energy, this dizzying woo, this psycho-spiritual play on the body which cannot be described but only experienced.
I see nothing of note. Where are you?
Then I abandon the search when the Changeling begins to get radical with his clothing removal, figuring I might have been having a false alarm. After all, it is quite early in the season & it has been very dry...
As I am tackling the wee one in the duff, attempting to save his naked flesh from the flocks of mosquitos clamouring to get at his tiny bottom, I hear our eldest gasp & shout from behind me:
O...
M...
G...
OMG!
We both turn & scramble to him. The spot where the Little Lad is now hovering, clutching his camera, is the precise spot where I had been standing.
Two tiny, precious little slimes, hidden in the shadows of the strong, slanted sunlight popped into view with the gesture of his finger.
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| Wolf's Milk Slime (Lycogala epidendrum) |
I was standing on that log. Had I not been so still, I might have trampled them. In all that scanning the micro-landscape, I hadn't thought to look down at my feet.
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| Wolf's Milk Slime (Lycogala epidendrum) |
And this might seem inconsequential to most humans, probably nearly all humans... but for the humans who find themselves entangled with me & this slime, this encounter speaks volumes about connections complex & inexplicable.
2 comments:
I'm wondering if the feeling of having to go, and finding a pee spot is the same sense the mosquitoes use to target and direct their actions,
Woo field and indirect information transfer,seemingly simultaneously, or retroactively making the circumstantial and coincidental the essential causal factors, Our reason for being, Bryan
That would make urination and feeding directed by the same "sense," no? An interesting thought given that most of us look very much like mosquitoes whilenwe frenetically search out that special spot. Dogs are so much more systematic. ;)
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