Too early one morning, I woke up with a startled andstrange feeling of dread! Because I just had a webinar the night before with Rick Jarow about paying attention to how emotion expresses in our body feelings, I noticed my usual body expression of fear goes from the stomach down. This body feeling was from the stomach to my upper body. More of a fear of outside influence. Not understanding this feeling of fear, I decided to get out of bed and do something kind of mundane to try and fall asleep. While I sorted a chaotic mess of seed beads by color, I heard a loud bump outside the house. I looked out the window and there was this bear rummaging around, clawing at rocks searching for something. I'm not the most knowledgable about what to do when crossing paths with bears, but I knew I wasn't going to shoot him with anything but a camera. It also took much more courage to mow the lawn or even walk to the car after that.
Life is always full of unexpected surprises. That seems to be the message of the month for me. We make plans and have this picture in our mind's eye what the outcome of our plans will look like, then life comes along and adds its brush strokes to the picture. Another message from this....sometimes things look so cuddly...but get too close and watch out!
