Thursday, January 7, 2010

Meet Blinky the Raccoon ~ a great messenger!


About 10 minutes ago, I got a phone call from my son, Matt.  He said "Mom, this raccoon just showed up at our door.  He's very content to just look in and watch us.  He's only got one eye so Nick (his brother who is visiting him) and I are calling him Blinky.  What's Raccoon medicine about?"

I pulled my Medicine Cards book off the shelf, read about how they are the Generous Protectors - looking after others, speaking up when hearing others gossip about someone, making sure you can give them a hand up not a hand-out, as you want to make sure you take care of your own needs, instead of wasting energy on self-pity do something nice for someone.

Matt thought it would be helpful for his friend, Jess, to also hear the message so he passed the phone to her and I repeated Raccoon's insight.

Once the message was delivered, I heard Matt say "thanks, Blinky!"  and off he went!  Just turned and walked away...message delivered... his job was done!

Here's a pic that Matt was able to take as I was talking to Jess - my son, Nick is the profile there - see how close they were?  The raccoon didn't seem to mind at all!

Love the messages from our Animal friends ~
Paula