Just a Dream

This is a song that I sing to slugs.

It began last summer when slugs seemed to be underfoot when I stepped onto my porch in the evenings to strum my guitar or look at the stars. For me, everything is language. The Divine is always speaking. So, I wondered what message the slugs might be bringing.

Such wondering led me to Animal Wise by Ted Andrews. Exploring the spiritual medicine of slugs, Andrews writes, “On a spiritual level, the slug is a reminder that the Biblical phrase, ‘Ask and it shall be given’, is active in our lives. The slug reminds us that if we know the proper way to ask, then we will begin to manifest that which we need or desire.”

Do I know the “proper way to ask”? Probably not. But I do wish, and pray, and dream (big) with all my heart — and that seems a good place to start.

So, this summer when the slugs visit me in the evenings as I sit on the porch, I sing to them a song I wrote for us. Bending down, I lean in, open my heart, and sing, “I wish I may / I wish I might . . . “

Sometimes, the slug stops to listen. Other times, he keeps moving forward slowly, but I know I have his attention.

Starlight and slugs . . .

A song from the heart seems a proper way to ask.