after turning tens of thousands of people into criminals and locking them up one percenters decided it was in their own best interest to let all the little people smoke weed though the industry is still held in the tight grip of bizarre and unnecessary laws at least we can all still sell and smoke weed without risking our personal freedom without risking our property and without risking our bank accounts at least in some states soon perhaps in more this is the discussion fe and i have a she lays in our backyard in the woods near squint with a nine point buck resting its head on faceoffs billy now fate takes the ant letters in her hands and positions the box space between her plump new press the book make small sounds of pleasure and licks phase dark erect nipples face smokes weed while enjoying the company of her stag the relationship between is not sexual it is mystical in ways i do not fully understand this particular stag is the one she rides most often through meadows and along roads and rivers in the early morning he takes her to places few people go along valleys and streams in the olympic mountains she tells me of hot springs and caves and forests cathedrals mostly unknown and unvisited by any humans the olympic national park has been mapped in detail by satellites and with thermal imaging there are still places where humans have never been it's this kind of conversation which makes me fully aware they is not human phase of a she is th woodland fairy not being a woodland fairy or a forest fairy nor a fairy of any kind fate is not often tell me fairy secrets my l g b t q fairy friends in seattle tell me far more secrets than my lovely fairy fe but i must say the l g b t q secrets are mostly about this or that sexual proclivity or this or that steamy gay romance and  secrets just don't hold my attention like the handful of mystic secrets i hear from fake fake hats the stag firmly on its flank the signal for it to get up and get on with its day the graceful hair for a moment then moves off into think seeders fay looks at me and says you know although you are human your natural levitation skills are much greater than most of the fairies in these parts i have not met one fairy in washington oregon idaho or british columbia who can keep it up like you laughing she continued i really mean it i'm not teasing you and our face grows serious she says  i need your help we need your help famous to sit next to me on the steps of our porch she takes my hand and says orla king of the stags has died she is trying to hold back tears she continues we face the animals wish to honor him in a ceremony and the sky burial but his body lies deep in a ravine horribly close to what canal bridge there is no way for us to recover his body and move it to the mountains we need your strength to lift him and to help us carry him up i really don't know how to respond to this day as far as i know it's not take she does not work for disney pixar she really means what she say i think about it and i reply well i've never flown with any weight other than my own i really don't know how much i can carry i would need some time to prepare to see if this is even possible it kisses me and says i know it is possible it is possible because you are tom green the green man it is your self determination your powerful free will that makes all the difference needless to say on a clear night four days later i have placed a large canvas under a three hundred pound twelve point stag or lawn ten golden eagles have talents locked into the canvas grommets on the left and ten bald eagles have talents lot into the ground it's on the right i struggle with them to raise the body of oregon just high enough for me to slip under the canvas and carry the bulk of the weight on my back in this position we rise the eagles lifting the canvas and i underneath using all my psychic energy against the combined weight or lungs body and my own body three hours later we land in a secluded alpine meadows on the east side of the olympic mountains the say the gnomes and the forest creatures have already begun together after placing or law on a wide altar stone i fall exhausted faith props me up against a boulder and she goes off to a nearby stream i catch my breath i watch and listen to the meadow in moonlight the group of three marmots are in conversation twenty feet from me there talking with the links and a cougar when faye returned she explains all humans share an ancient language called all i hear from the animal conversations are various sacred places for sacred purposes a cougar and a marmot usually have nothing to say to each other both species except the natural law of predator and prey but the mara really does not like that law and usually screams about it when any cougar comes close some distance further two vultures are describing the details of sky burial to a black bear a snowy owl and for beavers by some magic the language has now become beavers are very upset saying how disgusting and evil it is the sky burial the vultures tearing apart the flesh of orlanda and scattering his bones well what would anyone expect from vegetarians the black bear and the snowy look on with sophisticated tolerance both the ol and the bear have no hesitation of all to tear up flesh and scatter bones i watch a kingfisher into river otters gathering their breakfast the whole scene is surreal like a disney movie but one hundred percent more realistic these are not cartoon animals or highly detailed c g i animals these are wild living things talking peacefully together drawn together by their mutual respect for just before sunrise all the animals gather near the alter still in the growing like i now see elk coyote mountain goats and several clusters of skunk douglas squirrels and chipmunks perching in surrounding trees are red tailed hawks felton's and many songbirds hermit thrush robins friends barrows and my greatest surprise is the know at least twenty stout friendly families of the limping mountain no occupy the center area in front of the altar perhaps sixty or seventy individual gnomes all are dressed in illustrations t v and movie gnomes are usually exaggerated and i'm realistic compared to these actual gnomes these smallish people display unique humor dignity and intelligence rarely seen in fiction fairy clans are equally aggressive my faith points out six different kinds of fairies among the hundred or so gathered near us the ceremony begins when faith walks up on the wide the salt altar to greet the guess she wears a simple dark green blouse and ten velvet dress without shoes her bare feet stand on moss near the body of our lawn she raises her arms palms up to the sky and says welcome welcome people of the forest we all loved or alone or king of stags only a few fair gnomes will remember the brutal days before long he gave us unity and taught us practical ways to deal with humans or law made it possible for us to remain sane and taught us ways to remain alive after the intrusion of so many humans most of us feared for days as free beings were over and perhaps some of us would go extinct some of our brothers and sisters have gone extinct we no longer enjoy the company of the fent cooper island wolverine in the last purebred colombia basin pygmy rabbit died in two thousand and eight are pleased to remain safe by being completely ignored it is not possible for all of you to share your memories or lawn but marmot bear and cougar have prepared stories to help us understand or lon's honorable and inspiring life please marmot come up and tell us your story a large chubby marmont comes to stand next to face rising to his full height resting on his hind legs clears his throat and says when our lawyer was a young buck he was considered the protector of deer most hunters in modern times no longer pray to the deer spirit asking forgiveness when they come into the forest years do not come into the forest together food they come for what they call sport when any onto it kills without asking pardon or permission of the deer spirit they show no respect for life or beauty or nature while calling her it is at times necessary the lack of respect shown by some hunters made or very man using his own magical powers or line would go to the most vile and vulgar hunters while they slept he would touch them lightly with one who when the hunters woke they would have severe rheumatism which would prevent them from ever hunting again next cougar leaped on to the altar st cougar said my story will explain why or lon remain generous to humans all his life even when humans often have no regard for each other and no regard for animals and no regard for the planet on which they live back in the one nine hundred sixty s a father and his nine sons lived near tillamook the mother had died before the youngest son turned twenty the boys were lazy and ill tempered the father did everything it could help the boys find jobs and keep the boys out of trouble the nine boys always got into trouble and more than a few times were arrested by local police the father was able to teach these boys to ho and hunting was the one thing they all enjoyed the father encourage this because when the boys were out hunting they were not in town getting in trouble when the boys were in their twenties they spent most of their year roaming the woods hunting or developing survival skills and learning to set game traps one day the nine boys cornered a large beautiful stag at least eighteen points in its antlers the stag ran from them across a narrow bridge into think brush on the far side of a gorge the nine brothers followed running across the enchanted bridge they felt tingling in their arms legs and feet their scalps began to itch by the time they reached the far side of the bridge all nine boys had turned into young stags several days later the distressed father went into the forest looking for his sons he came upon a group of stags gathered around spring taking aim he prepared to shoot the largest but the stag turned toward him the stag shook its head left to right and then up and down this was the exact way his oldest son would behave whenever the boy was angry with something the father said or did in that moment he recognized the largest stag to be is the sub or alone he pleaded with or a lot of the other sons to come home with him but or lon said we can never go home father our antlers will not pass through human doorways we can no longer drink from cups we are made by nature to live among trees shrubs and ferns we are made by nature to roam the meadows and valleys of the olympic mountains our slender legs and small feet will never again enter the homes or businesses of men and we will never again be arrested and thrown in jail do not worry about us father where happier now than we ever were as humans at the end of cougar story all the assembled friends or long lifted their heads lifted their voices with a great sound of rushing wind and splashing water to praise marble bear cougar to praise the life and the memory o long at that moment many of the words they were saying in the which azza language have no quibble of words in english their ability to voice sincere praise and admiration far exceeds our ability humans begin to sound fake the atropos when they praise too much or admire too much in the which azza language deep affection deep gratitude and deep love can be spoken without ever sounding false when we say something like glorious and supreme leader we are either being stupid or being angry and ironic those thoughts can both be beautiful and sincere in the secret language the forest people to my astonishment faith grabbed my hand and put me up on to the altar where i received a wave of gratitude again the mint sounds of wind and water directed toward me thankyou me for making this tribute possible i began to cry i would never have imagined anything like this in the world of humans scenes like this are not possible we humans are filled with ulterior motives much of the time a crowd like this assembled to praise someone famous would be turned into a money making enterprise or design from the start to be a money making enterprise by midmorning seven vultures begin their work some among the crowd like the beavers somber and squirrels and other vegetarians cannot bear to watch any of this process the sky burial is not for the squeamish only a few hawks eagles and dolls set in stone at praise for four hours until all the flesh and bones or lot were separated and dispersed i did notice on nearly all in one sparrowhawk glued to the altar each to collect some small or long bone to take home i thought that was a respectable way to honor the dead saint fourth of july i suppose i should write something patriotic i am grateful to live in the united states whatever complaints i may have human civilization and economic slavery things are much better here than in many places many places simply dispense with any pretense of fairness and go straight to complete and brutal fascism in many places poor people are simply left to die encouraged to die or blown up or chased into neighboring countries those extremes that not happened in the united states yet those extremes may be in our future and in some places in the united states those extremes already exist we are far from pure and far from the ideals of thomas jefferson and the other founding fathers like your political activist on television rousing people to protest in the streets and that might not be a bad idea at all however i do wonder why it takes ten thousand people or more on the streets to get the attention of elected leaders some problems like homelessness and opioid addiction are so very obvious going to bend so very obvious for over a decade i would think any political leader who looks out his window or reads  newspaper would recognize the big problems and do something about them no one percenters truly do not care it is that situation which requires tens of thousands of people  march in peaceful protest in the streets of every major city to create any lasting bit of social change so far we have no effective way to protest the root cause of most problems which is the complete indifference of the one percenters the one percenters who almost everything and control most every major business and control what laws get passed and what laws do not get passed and what laws get eliminated we get to march in the street to protest this or that problem caused by the indifference of carful people but we rarely get to protest the indifference itself the culture of indifference the ivy league educated men and women in charge they dismissed the idea of their own cultural indifference by pointing to charts and graphs and statistics of how they and their political party have served the little people and work for the greater good they make a big show of this or that little project which is improve people's lives let's talk about the thousands of areas in the united states which have lead in the drinking water lead in higher quantities th flint michigan hillary clinton and the democratic party made such a big deal of that cleanup the cleanup of flint well what about everywhere else the fact is the other places do not matter unless they can be useful in winning some big election that's the way it works that's the way it looks to me republicans and republican leaders are no less mercenary in their choices of when to act and when to ignore the july my experience in the high meadow with the birds and animals with the fairy clans and the gnomes has changed my world view forever i imagine my world view has changed as dramatically as our lives worldview changed at the moment he turned into a stag few people allow themselves in one short lifetime to look at their physical and social surroundings interim magically contrast in ways a person might change their religion or their jobs or change their sexual preferences or change political parties or start reading fringe progressive literature or start reading far right republican blo dolphin or an orca native american tribes and native peoples in many countries have made some progress in that but these days few people imagine the world view of other species to be useful or in any way instructive spending days and nights with my face i begin to see more clearly than ever the serious failings of human civilization i make a list of the successes of capitalist democracy and the successes of modern socialism and the successes of modern communism then i make a list of the failures and the disasters and count the dead bodies created by those forms of human society i notice the list of failures in disasters is much longer than the list of successes and the piles of dead bodies are immense the suffering humans inflict on each other and the piles of dead bodies are more than the suffering and dead bodies of any natural disaster hurricanes earthquakes droughts volcanoes and forest fires ours are as different as political leaders and ours and different as one percenters but the natural disasters kill far less people present and for thousands of years we are our own worst enemies no cheery democratic or republican propaganda does much to change our social and economic inclinations to enslave and to kill each other in slave and in the twenty first century takes new and glamorous forms we have i phones we have designer shoes but the underlying inclinations remain let's make a billion or two selling drugs fully approved by the f d a which ten years later  thousands of people into early graves let's start wars in far off places and say those wars make us safer somehow while the true value is only the dollars which are moved from federal bank accounts into bank accounts of the makers of war machinery in the united states we have over two million people in jail and another four million on parole each year and not because those people are a threat to the rest of us most of those people are under government supervision because jails and law enforcement are big business there are billions of dollars to be made in the jail business if we only stop lying to each other stop telling the huge lies we might have a chance at creating a civilization worth calling his there was asian there is another big lie the lie of economics in business people are expected to extract as much money as possible from other people from individual customers and from other businesses this is standard operating procedure if we work for any large corporation or for many small corporations this procedure is essential to generating annual profits in this way cheating lying and stealing are made legal and normal not only normal but required workers in many industries in the us often develop split personalities the personality at work which deliberately deceives and uses other people and the personality at home which is often loving and caring and honest the attempt to live with two distinct personalities leads many places we tell ourselves we have no choice we are forced to have split personalities oh movies come to mind the home movies taken by eva braun where hitler is having himmler's dog and playing with him was children is this the behavior we aspire to to live up on the mountain with beautiful views and relax with our friends and family in a home purchased with our own to see purchased with the lives and suffering of other people