"Sincerely, Susan"
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For the September 2009 issue of "SINCERELY, SUSAN" please click on the link.
"Sincerely, Susan" - Issue 9/2009
My favorite moments of the day happen in the morning… when my herd beckons me to feed them. Slipping my feet into my moccasin-type-slippers, lifting Robert off the bed and down onto the floor, stretching my arms into a knobby sweater, one that I leave slung over the bench at the foot of the bed, we make our way downstairs.
They’re waiting under a huge fir tree. Waiting for a their next meal, they meander over the expanse of the field in back pausing every so often, stopping , grazing and gazing at the windows of our home. They see me in these windows. They see me open them and cry out, “I’m coming, deer!” Not understanding my words, of course, but they’ve been conditioned to know that when I yell to them, usually I end up outside with a wooden bowl of food for them. A wooden bowl filled with wet cob meal, deer pellets, rolled corn and a peanut-and-raisin mixture meant to attract woodpeckers.
They live in the moment. I live in the moment. Focused on little else other than getting food to “my” deer, my herd of eight, I live in the moment with them. We sense desperation together. Their stomachs empty, they walk up but in a throe of desperation and survival, they back off. My herd approaches in a push-me-pull-you sort of way. They don’t trust me but they don’t completely mistrust me either. They must feel my compulsion to touch them, to sit with them while they eat… in the moment with them when nothing else matters but feeding deer. But, suspicion consumes them. They won’t let me stay. They trot away if I linger too long so I leave quickly, so their fawns can get their fill...
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