Notes from the Path #61 - Deer jumping the fence

a weekly reflection from my wandering

Deer jumping the fence

There are details missing from the memory of a particular moment in my past, but I know that a self-protective part of me learned, in that moment, to close some of myself off. I was thirteen, trying to explain to my church youth group the tingling excitement I felt when I watched a deer jump over a fence. It was awe that I was tryi…