there are times when i truly love living in alaska.
ok, so i like bears. i really do, the few times i've stood, on a trail, with a bear have been amazing. it is severly humbling to look into the eyes of something that could eat you, and know there is nothing you can do to stop it. for all of our technological wonders when it comes right down to it what humans come standardly equipted with is pretty fragile, and nothing drives that point home like being too close to something truly wild.
i did most of my growing up in alaska, and never really saw, or had to deal with bears. i just never worried about it, but in the last 2 years, after moving back from oregon, i've been closer than anyone wants to be, to a bear like 5, or 6 times. i'm kind of starting to enjoy the rush.
anyway, on the front page of he paper today is a big story about how many more brown bears there are in the area, and how they are scaring people, and eating pets. in a community, about 60 miles south of me, there are so many bears that people are walking together in groups when they go outside. the bears are charging people, and being kind of agressive, for a kind of animal who would normaly avoid humans. the artical talked about the big fuzzies flattening tents, and opening coolers. hee, hee, hee.
to be honest, i think that would be the way go. to be eaten. i'm going to miss quote hemmingway now, or movie... "at the end of your life, the story of your life, is not your life, but your story." i'm into sudden endings.
ok, so i like bears. i really do, the few times i've stood, on a trail, with a bear have been amazing. it is severly humbling to look into the eyes of something that could eat you, and know there is nothing you can do to stop it. for all of our technological wonders when it comes right down to it what humans come standardly equipted with is pretty fragile, and nothing drives that point home like being too close to something truly wild.
i did most of my growing up in alaska, and never really saw, or had to deal with bears. i just never worried about it, but in the last 2 years, after moving back from oregon, i've been closer than anyone wants to be, to a bear like 5, or 6 times. i'm kind of starting to enjoy the rush.
anyway, on the front page of he paper today is a big story about how many more brown bears there are in the area, and how they are scaring people, and eating pets. in a community, about 60 miles south of me, there are so many bears that people are walking together in groups when they go outside. the bears are charging people, and being kind of agressive, for a kind of animal who would normaly avoid humans. the artical talked about the big fuzzies flattening tents, and opening coolers. hee, hee, hee.
to be honest, i think that would be the way go. to be eaten. i'm going to miss quote hemmingway now, or movie... "at the end of your life, the story of your life, is not your life, but your story." i'm into sudden endings.
nena:
Happy bday!