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The world is not just, but there is beauty everywhere.

Black-capped Chickadee. Catskills, New York. January, 2012 by Rebecca Thom “Of all the birds, Stalking Wolf respected the chickadee the most, even more than the hawk or the owl.  Every animal had some characteristic to admire and emulate and Stalking Wolf often used them as examples of what our own skills should be like… The exuberance of the chickadee made him our idol.  In the coldest weather, when other birds have gone into the brush to wait beind a dome of driven snow for the weather to clear, the chickadee is always out, his chickadee-dee-dee ringing off the snow. When the fox has curled himself up under a small tree and let the snow drift him a blanket of insulation, the chickadee is out doing loop-the-loops over the seedless snow, calling out louder than playing children and he is there and alive and happy about it!…Nobody flies with more reckless abandon than the chikadee, and nobody flies with more delight.  The chickadee lives by joyous faith in living. ”   An excerpt from Tom Brown’s ‘The Tracker’

Black-capped Chickadee. Catskills, New York. January, 2012 by Rebecca Thom

“Of all the birds, Stalking Wolf respected the chickadee the most, even more than the hawk or the owl.  Every animal had some characteristic to admire and emulate and Stalking Wolf often used them as examples of what our own skills should be like… The exuberance of the chickadee made him our idol.  In the coldest weather, when other birds have gone into the brush to wait beind a dome of driven snow for the weather to clear, the chickadee is always out, his chickadee-dee-dee ringing off the snow. When the fox has curled himself up under a small tree and let the snow drift him a blanket of insulation, the chickadee is out doing loop-the-loops over the seedless snow, calling out louder than playing children and he is there and alive and happy about it!…Nobody flies with more reckless abandon than the chikadee, and nobody flies with more delight.  The chickadee lives by joyous faith in living. ”  

An excerpt from Tom Brown’s ‘The Tracker’

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