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...bears--oh my! El Cabrero is not an overly superstitious person (aside from spilling salt, not rocking a chair with nobody sitting in it, knocking on wood, etc.). However, in the event that anything really weird happens around here involving our ursine friends, here are three odd things that have happened lately:
1. I had a dream about seeing a bear on a hill near the pond on Goat Rope Farm;
2. My daughter had a dream about a massive bear attack on the farm a week later; and
3. The next day, she read in a post on this blog that a neighbor told us he saw a bear on our road in the middle of the night.
(The record should also state that said daughter, La Cabrita, has all kinds of delusions about bears as incredibly malevolent creatures who plot at every opportunity to do harm to humankind. A Freudian might say bears in this case represent repressed aspects of the unconscious.)
My theory is that bears are pretty harmless creatures who couldn't be much worse than some of the dogs on this hollow--including ours.
But if anything really bearish happens around here, then yes, Virginia, there is a Twilight Zone.
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2 comments:
Perhaps these are just manifestations of the bear market...
-Chrissie
The fear of bears is in fact rational and I still stand by my point that if given the choice and despite the idea of threat, if you are walking along a wooded path and the area is rich in berries, as is much of WV, the bear WILL forgo the berries, attack and eat eat (the fact that the animal may perceive you as a threat, does not matter when being eatten by a bear)..phobic, would be more accurate;however, this is a logical and rational fear, thus negating the diagnosis of a phobia...
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