At last there have been positive articles about coyotes: like the pair in Central Park where coyotes have long been chased, trapped, killed. Check out The New York Times article on Romeo and Juliet and The Guardian's. I'm including an article I wrote years ago about coyotes I've known.
Intuition and the Natural World
When I lived in the wilderness, we slept among rocks on hills surrounded by mountains -- often without a tent -- just sleeping bags, sky and wind.
Coyotes came near but never bothered us, never harmed anyone's dog. They just stepped around but went on their way, minding their own lives and letting us live ours in peace.
Sometimes they'd howl -- usually at midnight. I loved the sound. It thrilled and soothed me.
According to explorer Sarah Marquis, she woke feeling restless one night in her tent in Mongolia.
Then she heard a howl and knew she had sensed a wolf nearby, letting her know this was his territory. Silently, she spoke to the wolf, telling it she would be leaving in the morning. She had no more trouble that night.
We are out of sync with the natural world and keep building in areas that were wild. We are surprised when the natural world reacts.
Most of us are so bombarded by artificial lifestyles that we lose the ability to sense things. Yet intuition is our birthright. Aborigines, for example, learn as children to travel great distances and find their way back without maps. They have activated their global compass capacity -- one of many gifts we have within us. -- My Article
