Innocence and Expetations

Keep with you always a part of your innocence.

Not so much as to be a burden on you,

and not so little that no one can find it when the time comes.(L.O.)

The snow is just an innocent part of the world.

It doesn't come with the desire to freeze your water,

or to try and take your life. It just is.

The innocence of the dog, young and full of life,

Running and nipping the white flakes as it falls.

The hundreds of little birds that came through the yard,

flying this way and that way, picking the seeds out of the snow.

The Eskimos(Inuit) have over 20 names for snow,

They will tell you the wind isn't cold, it's just the wind.

That is all, innocent.

If you wake in the morning, you never expect to wake up dead!

That would ruin your whole day.

To wake and expect the blue sunny sky, is not what a person should do.

To wake and expect to be of service to your community,

to be of service to the animals under your care.

You may be a Leader, but you are still at the service of the people that follow.

Like Mose, Buddha, Dali, Jesus.

While checking my traps in the snow,

I see the tracks of deer, marten, squirrels and a bear that

has awoken too early(maybe it was moving to another den). Never a good sign to see.

A friend that has walked by, I know them by how they walk, the size of their feet.

All of this is left in the snow, not for me to see, but by innocence, not by my expectations.

Only people have expectations.


Dee