Primitive anxieties in a "modern" world.
Simpler when you can see the predator,
and not some elusive shadow from the past.
How to cope?
Trust what you have learned,
what you know is true.
Wait it out.
Look around you and believe what you see,
not what you feel.
And when you are ready,
lean on a friend.
Alligator and Great Blue Heron, surviving side by side in the Everglades, March 2008.
Reprinted from Laine's Blog, March 2013.