Tag Archives: imagination and nature
I am daily encouraged and inspired by the daily talk with my pets. They even say thank you, I believe. Unafraid to make demands they give to me in eye contact, cuddling, licking my hand, pawing gently on my cheek. When they are thirsty they show me by circling the bowl; what fun to watch them focus on the mountain spring water pouring into the bowl.
Under the covers at night; a coil behind my knees, a plaintiff siren in…..
In the Australian outback, the Flying Doctor’s Service historically provided for the needs of desert families far out from Alice Springs. The doctor who founded the service wanted people to feel “a mantle of safety.” As I sojourned in Australia from Sydney to Alice Springs and to New Zealand by myself the buffer came from nature’s sounds and silences. I was alone in my feelings of not having answers, no realized goals, no highs. Conversations with aboriginals and peoples from…..
About the Author
Jacqueline K. Kelsey, Ph.D. is an alternative learner and leads others to connect and receive from out-of-the-way people in society. Her greatest teachers are humble people and animals. After a full career of teaching literature and writing in college and high schools, she became a teacher educator at the university level…