Hidden in Plain Sight:
How to Attract What You Want in Life
You can’t fool Mother Nature. But she sure can fool you. What a beauty she is—wowing us with her spacious skies and purple mountains majesty, and taunting us with her tantalizing tapestries of flora, fauna and frolicking creatures. From the spine-tingling glacial lakes of Alaska to the heart-warming mystical canyons of Arizona, I’ve experienced some of her best creations. Nature and I have been very intimate. I felt I knew her secrets. Boy, was I wrong!
I admit, I only wanted her for her looks and the way she makes me feel. It never occurred to me that Mother Nature has a deeper, more compassionate, protective side. I ignored her whispers that she has gifts for me—treasures more valuable than gold. And I was blind to the clues she scattered on my path.
In my youth, if Mother Nature told me her wild birds could guide me back to a lost path, I’d have felt she was nutty as a squirrel. Knowing that I wouldn’t listen to her, she sent a skilled sage to get her message through my thick skull. The Native American medicine man asked a simple question: “Did you know that rattlesnakes only bite “civilized” people and leave tribal people alone?” I felt the “crazy” shaman had a few rattles loose in his brain. But his words were intriguing. “How could that be?” I wondered. “Why would a snake choose to bite some people and leave others alone?” His preposterous claim haunted me.
Unbeknownst to me at the time, this bold assertion propelled my life into a new direction that would take me off my known map into uncharted territory. Mother Nature was luring me in. I was the cat. She was the nip. She was