May we learn to returnAnd rest in the beauty Of animal being.Learn to lean low,Leave our locked minds,And with freed sensesFeel the earthBreathing with us.~ John O’Donohue

As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames, no light but rather darkness visible

Contemplations of the gorilla

The indigenous Event peoples of Siberia believe that reindeer were created by the sky god Hovki, for reciprocal nurturance on earth, and to lift the human soul up to the sun ~ Reindeer People, Vitebsky