An elder Native American shares his experience during a rite of passage.
David helped me find the title as I sought a mushroom for a life changing experience for the character.
It was late at night when the men of the village came and took me to the forest of life. I had been sleeping, and as they woke me, they spoke of the great spirit. Amenita
They left me in that wood and I fell back to sleep. A wind awoke me, the great eagle spirit showed me a deer giving birth to a doe.
Amenita
Turtles had come from the water to see.
A row of sycamores parted for sunlight and the doe became a puma and leapt through the wood. All this I have seen, and this jacket is the jacket I wore that day.
Amenita