5 Man Electrical Band
Horror Story [...and a reminder of the potency and Nature of change. Life and death in an instant. Blips and bumps in the Matrix.]
Richard K. Root, a prominent American epidemiologist and medical educator, was reported killed on Sunday when a crocodile pulled him into a river while he was on a guided safari tour in Botswana, in southern Africa. He was 68 and lived in Seattle.
ROOT-NYTIMES
Other reminders that grand changes move beyond the pale of what we have constructed into our often flat vision.
Brother Coyote came today,
minding change to pass our way.
A merry chase,
a peaceful place.
Tales in time will sway.
---tink 3-23-06
Wily coyote caught in Central Park
Lengthy chase through heart of New York City causes a stir
From Hussein Saddique
CNN
Wednesday, March 22, 2006 Posted: 2145 GMT (0545 HKT)
Officials say the coyote's range is expanding, but New Yorkers didn't think that extended to Central Park. New York Manhattan (New York)
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A coyote was captured Wednesday morning in New York's Central Park after a prolonged chase that ended with the animal being tranquilized by sharpshooters from the Police Department's emergency services unit.
The animal was apprehended near Belvedere Castle, home of the annual Shakespeare in the Park theater series in the heart of the 843-acre park, at about 9:45 a.m., police said.
That was after the coyote gave pursuers the slip in the Hallett Nature Sanctuary near Wollman Rink, in the park's south end. It jumped into a pond, swam under a bridge, squeezed through a fence and raced away.
New York Parks and Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe told reporters at the scene, "We have the coyote cornered, but it remains elusive."
The coyote, nicknamed Hal, sparked pandemonium when it darted out of the wooded area and skirted Wollman Rink, where people were ice skating.
COYOTE PROPHECY [click me]
And this may be a good moment to remind us of the "Nature's Delight" essay by Michael Ventura posted two days ago. If "we" indeed embody nature itself --- who's the croc and who's the coyote? Who's the sun, who's the moon? Who is dark and who is light? Aren't we all of those things? Do we press, squeeze, blend the shape of time and events much as children pummeling Playdough? If so, then maybe we best get looking at mindful creation.
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