POWER

He is not here to tell us something. Humans make everything about themselves. So of course, some people will deprive him of his Power, see no value in this creature, declare he is inferior because he lives fully without our chattering mind, largely silent in the forests and at the far edge of meadows. Some will make up magical stories, talk of the “meaning” of the fox, as if the wild spirits of nature exist just for human enlightenment. But this fox is not a spirit animal. He can’t be interpreted or assigned significance beyond himself or reduced to any other nonsense.

PLAY

Surrounded in Beauty, embodied in life, he is more of a force than we can know, more astonishing than our best attribution. If we could arrive at another planet circling a distant star, we would meet intelligent life the way a child might, discerning with excitement that we are not alone in the universe. Alas, too few of us can play powerfully enough to get out of our head and see that any encounter with the fox is personal and precious and makes a permanent imprint on our soul, one intelligent being in a sacred meeting with another.