Hu! Hu! Hu!…she calls at the edge of the ancient cedar forests…it sounds like wind through the trees and sends children scurrying for the safety of fathers, and the protective embrace of mothers. She is ugly and pale and naked…a creature of the darkness from deep inside the forests canopy…dark bedraggled hair shades her eyes and bright red pursed lips as she hunts lost innocents to eat. The legend tells of how the tribe tricked this ogress, the Dzunuḵ̓wa, through a ruse to fall into a fire pit…where they burned her for 3 days so that she could not resurrect herself. But in the night, under the moonlight…her burning remains propelled skyward from the flames…her spirit clinging desperately to life in those glowing embers and then in final defiance as the light fades, her ashes transformed and fell back to earth as mosquitoes.
“Character is what a man is in the dark.” – Dwight L. Moody
About Lawrence Lewis
I do a number of things professionally...but most of all and the true purpose of what I do through "my work" is to provide for my family, be a good husband and great father, and try to make a difference as a world citizen...I guess it's not much more complicated than that 🙂