Gentle Company

Here by the quiet stream a young woman sits among creatures who meet her as equals, each one present without fear or claim. The deer, the fox, the rabbit, the pig and the calf rest in the same soft light, sharing the grass and the water as if the world had always been this way. In their gentle company the old ranks fall away, and what remains is only presence, a simple belonging that asks nothing more than to be seen and left in peace.