I was wrong about the name of the list on ecovillages, its called "ecobalance" and here is a foreward that includes joining info at the bottom and that i thought might be interesting for some on this list will bason > >aloha friend of spirit, just wanna thank you for the eloquent message on >talking to the deer. it boosted my spirit to read it and supported my hermit >life, for like you i have been living the imposible by myself not by choice >but due to lack of support from friends for spirit that i cannot deny despite >the lonely unbonded life i am living in relation to other humans. i do however >feel the support and bond of trees, cats, and other life forms that i interact >with on a daily basis. i will save your post and send it to others who i feel >need to hear it if you don't mind. > > i used to hunt and kill deer untill like tom brown i had to kill one with my >bare hands. later while hunting rabbits one spring i was still questioning my >"need" to kill for food but killed one rabbit anyway outa habit, the whole >time wondering how much longer i could do it. as i was field dressing the dead >rabbit i had this strange thought that there was a baby inside and that i had >prevented it's birth. i had killed many rabbits and never had a thought like >that before. i couldn't get the thought out of my head so i carefully cleaned >the rabbit and carefully cut open the uterus(i didn't even know what it looked >like but guessed) and to my surprise out popped a cute single bunny baby and >believe it or not it was alive. > > i took it home with some remorse and guilt and thought i could somehow >perhaps keep it alive as i had once done with a baby racoon i had for a pet a >few years earlier. i checked the library for a milk formula in veteranairy >books but couldn't find one for rabbits, so i kinda guessed at one and tryed >it. the little baby survived for three days on the formula but not very well >and on the third day as i was holding it in my hands and thinking over my >actions it died. at the same time a strange thing happened. > > i was deep in thought when i heard a noise outside the window and there to my >surprise was a big white rabbit(i lived in the country far from neighbors and >snowshoe rabbits had already turned color to brown). this incident caught my >attention and i put down the dead baby and ran outside to investigate this new >rabbit in my life. it ran into a brush pile and to my surprise i was able to >sneak up to it and catch it with my bare hands. i looked at it and could see >it was a tame rabbit gone wild. > > it was just too much rabbit energy and as i got back to the house i felt i >just needed to let it be free and so i set it down and expected it to run off >back to the forest where it had come from but to my surprise it just stood >there next to me and looked at me. i bent down and petted it for awhile and >then said to the rabbit i had chores to do and went off to do them. that was >the beginning of a most pleasurable friendship between me and the new rabbit. >it set up home under my house and we spent a whole summer and fall together > romping around the house when the mood was right until i left in winter. > >suffice it to say that that experience alone has made me a deep impact on me > and i have been vegan ever since. but as you say things like that >are impossible, he made that story up or exagerated to prove a point, but >honest injun it's 100% true. i used to profess compassion for years to the >animals while killing plants to make a homestead life and orchard. after years >of wacking weeds i am starting to see like tom brown that when we feel a >similar way about a blade of grass, we must be going crazy, i look forward to >that crazy with tears in my eyes. aloha and peace.....forest for earth re-leaf > > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe ecobalance" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The ecobalance list is brought to you courtesy of > The Ecovillage Information Service <http://www.gaia.org/> > List archive at <http://csf.Colorado.EDU/mail/ecobalance/> >
