This week I added another bird feeder to my pine forest.

A few years ago I noticed the frogs were making themselves at home in Frog Town. The frogs’ home is carpeted in Pixie Moss to please Mrs. Frog down in the hole.

Mr. Frog serenades his lovely green lady from the patio’s glass door.

If it sounds like I have been taking this solitary living too seriously, you are right.

I am going back to nature, as God intended. In doing so I am becoming acquainted with another class of being. That is a classification which resides in another world all together as well as in our own.

American Indians are familiar with animal spirit guides. Animals and humans live in the physical world together. They also cohabit the spirit world too.

Others believe this world is where our loved ones go when they die. Residents of this spirit world are angels, archangels, spirit guides and totems who are there to help, protect, offer guidance and inspire us who remain on this side of the great divide.

You don’t have to be anyone special to access the spirit world. Just believe.

American Indians are sensitive to animal spirits because of their closeness with nature. They often commune with animal spirits in something called a Vision Quest.

In recent weeks I noticed increased activity in at my bird feeders. Woodpeckers are common enough. At least 3 additional varieties have come calling this spring.

I did a little research to see what could be causing this. What did the woodpeckers have to tell us?

Woodpeckers have a classification in indigenous animal totems. If a woodpecker shows up in your tree, he will peck until he has your attention and you hear his message. He is the heartbeat of the earth.

An animal spirit guide, the woodpecker, has come pecking. He wants us to see a great change is coming. He wants us to understand the door to opportunity is open and success is ours for the taking. Listen.

Woodpecker surely got my attention. But that’s another story.