A couple of days after my experience with the rabbit, I received another lesson in awareness from nature, this time a prairie dog. I'm driving along the 4 lane highway, with emergency lanes, where speeds are a minimum of 65mph and a concrete barrier divides the highway.
Once again there was a large presence, which drew my attention and there it was a prairie dog standing on the my left side on the yellow line, no more than a foot tall. It was waiting to cross the 2 lanes to the other side. This was an amazing sight to see it there so patient and what was even more amazing was it had somehow crossed over either from the other side of the highway or from my side. Either way it had successfully crossed 2 lanes of traffic and an emergency lane to get to where it was. No small feat on a very busy highway.
That takes a lot of patience to wait for the ideal opportunity and it takes a lot of awareness to know when to cross and when not to cross and it takes a very clear knowing of what you want. That combination gives you a large than life presence.
Are you willing to learn from the prairie dog? Or are you in a rush?
