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Once Upon a Midnight Clear.

Sooooo, Ive been running bad and finally hit a stragiht with 6,7 off on the button and won a huge pot. Funny but sometimes a thing like that can motivate you to action. Satisfied, for the moment, I decide to shake off my delivered pizza malaise and go for a walk…

It was about an hour ago, 1 AM, and its a clear breezy night in Colorado maybe in the mid twenties. I live in a suburban area that is next to a mesa. On the mesa there are often Mule deer. So Im walking down this street and see two deer, maybe in their second year with big racks. I whistle at them and they jog off. Satisfied that I am the badest mother ****er prowling the night I continue down this street into a section where on the right there is a ten foot high stone fence and on the left is a long office building. A valley as it were, you can go back or you can go forward but your not getting out of it otherwise.

This thought occurs to me as I see three enormous mule deer in the grassy median of this street ahead of me. Now these things are big. Heads where my head is and racks three to four feet above that. Soooo, I walk toward them and clap my hands and whistle a bit like I did to the others. They stare at me and I stare at them. I move closer and to the side. They turn and face me and stare. Just silence me and the three deer looking cautiously at each other, the rest of the world so quiet that it fell away. Ears flickering, and I consider going back the way I came. But I dont, I suppose if the grand architect wants me to be gored to death by three deer in suburban Colorado so be it.

Anyway, I walked right past them. No more than 15 feet while they stared at me. It was a cool moment. Im 6,2 and about 220 pounds but at that moment those deer had all the power not me. So it was with an assumed and shaky confidence that I walked by them trying to look confident but unthreatening.

Maybe these are my spirit deer, come to signify my luck has changed. Maybe there is more to this world than meets the eye. I have begun to think so, and I hope so. I hope there is a deeper justice. Anyways. Never Surrender