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Some days, the distractions are a welcome relief to the stresses that are going on in your life.  I am lucky that, if I go far enough, on my run I can have such a fantastical distraction. Let me explain..... It was a beautiful foggy morning the other day - I was actually glad it was grey and foggy, it seemed to match my mood. After my warm up hill, and run through downtown, my mood wasn't much improved. This led me to want to go just a little farther. I thought it would be the one thing that would get me through the day, that I pushed myself and succeeded.  'A little extra distance would be the only thing I could be happy about today' , I thought. The stresses were so bad I didn't know how I was going to make it through the day. But then I noticed the most unusual thing. Upon what had I come across? What the was this bursting from the ground? A snake! A very large snake. Then, what should I see, a wizard to greet me? With a wise owl no less.  And th...

the Old Indian Once upon a time ,  a woman was picking up firewood.  She came upon a poisonous snake   frozen in the snow.  She took the snake home  and nursed it back to health.  One day the snake bit her on the cheek.  As she lay dying ,  she asked the snake,  "Why have you done this to me?"   And the snake answered,  "Look, bitch,  you knew I was a  snake." ~ Old Indian  from Natural Born Killers One thing we were afraid of when we moved here  to North Carolina was the snakes. There are poisonous snakes here, like  Copperheads ! Copperhead photo courtesy of  The Biology Department at Davidson And lo and behold, within the first few weeks we were here, this big old black snake slithered on the patio. We remembered that quote from Natural Born Killers ... Not knowing what is was,  hubby 'took care of it'   with a shovel .  Black Rat Snake photo courtesy of The Bio...