"like anything focused upon so intently the animal ally will begin visiting the novice shaman's dreams, imparting understandings wholly inaccessible to her waking mind...most importantly because the young shaman is now very informed by two very different sets of senses." Becoming Animal, David Abram p.217
Sometimes I see you and it makes me sad.
The boy fell to the sidewalk and cut his knee. He slowly pulled his leg up so that his eyes regarded the cut as though it were a small ravine.
A stone was stuck in the soft crimson walls. He went to pull it out, and winced, and quickly pulled his hand away. Instead of pulling it out, he bandaged the knee up and forgot about it. Slowly the walls of sediment settled and healed over themselves again. The boy forgot about the stone.
However sometimes, in later years,when the weather is muggy and rainy, the stone gives him intense pain. Not a dull constant pain, but a sharp pain that causes him to wince at inconvenient moments. This is when you meet him, in a wincing moment. And this is why when you rendezvous on rare occasions he will say things like, "Sometimes when I see you, it makes me sad."
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