Wild Kingdom was a tv show started in the early '60s to acquaint city folks, like me, with the wide variety of animals not usually found in an urban environment. Marlin Perkins, Jim Fowler, and a host of others, including Joan Embery from the San Diego Zoo became popular guests on the Tonight Show. Exotic animals seemed to fascinate us.
As we adapt to our cabin environment in addition to the Passion Play, we realize that we have been exposed to a lot of different animals and in some cases it is us who have invaded their territory and upset their natural routine. It has been fun to be around donkeys, camels, sheep, goats, horses, Indy the pig, ducks, geese, pigeons, koi and gold fish, deer, feral cats, tire-chasing dogs, hummingbirds, wild birds, vultures with babies; and not as much fun having squirrels in the bird feeder, raccoons, snakes, armadillos, coyotes, deer that eat our peaches, strawberries and flowers, chiggers, ticks, mites and other itch-creating critters, wasps, ants, spiders and Japanese beetles, But all of them are God's handiwork and have a part to play in the whole scheme of the thing called life. One day we may understand better all the who, what, where, when, and why's, but for now we just give everything and everyone their "space" and do our best to maintain our own. Thank You, Lord........I think.
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