We took a ride on the Cumbres & Toltec Railway on Friday. About 10 miles from Taos on the way back from Chama, we saw two llamas with a baby in a field beside the highway, maybe 60 or 70 yards away. The adults were trying to butt a coyote that kept jumping and snapping at the little one. I stopped the car and got out to yell at the coyote, who saw me right away and moved off a little distance. The longer I stood there, the farther away he walked, a little at a time, with backward glances over his shoulder. The llamas didn’t seem all that excited. This kind of thing must happen all the time out in the boonies.
For some reason, I didn’t take a picture. That’s the way it often is in real life.
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Blake said that “one law for the lion and the lamb is oppression for both”. I think he meant by this that the lion’s destiny was to eat the lamb, and the lamb’s destiny was to be eaten by the lion – no way to legislate their natures into anything else without destroying them. The destiny of us humans is to be aware of the bloody spectacle and to look with horror on it and be guilty about our part in the show. We’re the only animals with a bad conscience, the only animals to fret and worry about what ought to be – and dream of a peacable kingdom where the lion will lie down with the lamb. That’s our folly but its also our law and our destiny. Some days I reckon it would be better to be a lamb.