Spontaneous Communal With Nature, pt. 1
A strange sort of thing happened to me on the way home from work yesterday. I'm about two miles from my driveway, cruising down the back roads by the local farmstead when I look out my driver's side window... to see this raccoon running along the side of the road on other side of the street. I find this to be very unusual because we don't see too many raccoons around my house. So I'm staring at this "stranger in a strange land"... enthralled not only by it's willingness to be seen out in the open lie this, but also because the thing was actually managing to keep pace with my car (I was barely doing 15MPH, but still). I looked over at it, it looked back... and so it went for about a mile. Then it was over, as the beastie veered off into the woods and was gone. Even a day later, it still seems so surreal. I suppose it was just nature's way of reminding me it's still out there... :)