raw

i learned a thing today

it was shocking

and so simple

whitetail deer eat lots of wood in winter.

bark, buds, twigs.

 this is a stomach 

full of fiber

 pulled away

  moved 

out of the belly cavity

and the organs eaten

by coyotes

 the light was so flat

it's hard to see

this dramatic

 young creature

who is now keeping another creature

alive

everybody eats somebody

close to here.

likely that yearling

drank from this pond.

at the new place

the place i will call home.

three down, one me

yep, there were several falls at the arena today, including me in the first 10 yards. 

umph! both knees have just come out of their first icings. a packet of frozen corn for my right, frozen flowers for the left. half of my freezer is dedicated to flowers, pulp, roots for papermaking and dyeing. the other half has food.

satisfied.

in a little bit of pain. only five students showed, three didn't come because they can't skate. two had conflicts and couldn't. one never showed.

we ask our students to take risks. it's interesting which students took the risk to come and skate. three pro staff took risks (all over 50). one paraprofessional didn't. we went to a restaurant for lunch and ordered off the menu, using budgeting skills they're learning in math. it was a good day. one more day and then break and hopefully (please to all the powers that be) we will be back in our school building.
update: knees are working fairly well this morning. icing helped.