For what I’ve now decided is part I, see this:

https://annkreilkamp.net/2022/05/30/needed-now-how-animals-help-humans-return-to-natures-harmony/

 

The little dove chick that sat with its mom in flimsy nest high in the kiwi forest above my frontn porch has fledged, successfully, I hope! So many doves this year, all continuously reminding me of when I was an infant, alone in my crib during World War II, soothed by doves outside the window. That strong early auditory memory now reverberates continuously, thanks to the presence of doves in spring, 2022.

Doves, symbol of peace.

Peace? What peace? Buy-den has just announced it’s sending medium-range missiles to Ukraine, saying they are not to be aimed at Russia. Oh? Why should Russia believe this blather?

Perhaps doves are increasing now to flood us with their soft cooing, helping us to relax, calm down. BE the peace we want to see.

Meanwhile, puppy Shadow and I actually came across a baby box turtle on our walk this morning, situated on the border of a swath of forest with vast expanse of grass on elementary school grounds. Very exciting. Shadow had never interacted with one before. In fact, neither of us had ever come across one before! As shadow sniffed, turtle’s little head and feet slowly retracted under the shell. For me, a welcome reminder: slow down, smell the roses, be at one within my body and the natural world.

https://whatismyspiritanimal.com/spirit-totem-power-animal-meanings/amphibians-reptiles/turtle-symbolism-meaning/

Not even 50 feet further on, we passed under a mulberry tree, with lots of ripe mulberries. What a feast!

I had decided to do this post as part 2 of how animals help to reconnect us with the natural world, focusing especially on a viral photo on fb of a sleeping elephant family taken by a drone.

I assumed that this was a family with a large male elephant (with tusks) guarding from above, the mom, below him, nestling the littlest one, with her offspring from the past two or three years skin to skin nearby.

(Reminds me of how puppy Shadow bumps his back against my legs on the bed at night. Reminds me of kitty Tiger, who will reach out with his paw to my hand while nestled nearby.)

To me, as, I’m sure to many others, this family photo represents so much of what we have lost, during this time of chaos that actually began after World War II when returning GIs wrenched their young families from their extended family tribes elsewhere to pursue the fruits of the G.I. Bill — housing and college. Indeed, especially the first few streets of this Green Acres Neighborhood were built during those post-war years: small “ticky-tacky” look-alike homes.

When I searched to find how elephants live, I discovered that the above photo, though it may contain a young male offspring of the female, it’s likely not the father. That young males eventually leave, to roam about with other males.

So, my need to see this photo as an imprint, in the wild, of how we humans used to live, in intact family units, is wishful thinking. However, searching further, I discover that elephants do have extended family tribes, which, however, are matriarchal (the males off with other males, remember). Elephant mothers help one another with their babies, which again, is the way we women used to help each other in the U.S. Indeed, this was true for my generation even in the early ’60s, when I was a young mom, just prior to the feminist revolution that fired us up to the point where I eventually left my own children with their father and have lived to regret it ever since. BTW: remember that the feminist icon, Gloria Steinem, who edited MS Magazine that was indirectly funded by the CIA, herself worked for the CIA.

How the CIA Used Feminism to De-Stabilize Society

So here we are, in the chaos predicted, according to plan, by the forces that want to bring in the New World Order and turn us all into transhuman bots. Order out of Chaos, Ordo Ab Cho.

Are we willing? No. Instead, we humans are learning, especially thanks to the loving  presence of our domestic animals, to re-member our instinctive connections with all creatures as we begin the long, slow, process of returning to nature, to Mother Earth under our feet, to her wisdom and abundance.