"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other.  If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not know, you will fear.  What one fears, one destroys."
               -Chief Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh  Nation, British Columia


As I came around a corner, down on Western Avenue in Oklahoma City, there she was without her mask . . . the Goddess of wild animals, especially birds.  Her long, coal black hair, full lips and large piercing eyes - bearing witness to the mysteries and magic of the cosmos.