These prompts while random at times from the journal A Year of Zen causes a pause to reflect what the author is trying to encourage, and while confusing, they have brought me joy.
It’s January 30th and today the prompt lets you think about what comes before snow tracks? Now, this may be difficult to respond to if you don’t have any interaction with snow and tracks in the snow but having spent last winter snowshoeing it was easy for me to connect on this one.
While my friends called me Le Nordic Keisha for the amount of time I spent outside in the winter nothing would ever prepare for an encounter with a coyote.
Coyotes live in the neighbouring woods and with every adventure I would take to enjoy the snow covered trees I kept thinking I might have my first sighting.
Now reflecting, those coyotes were simply living in their own world before we came along. Nothing more, nothing less except maybe us invading their space. That’s what came before the tracks, the wild living in their snow covered homes while we towered cowardly over their world.
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