dear deer

eventful.

this two-video post has been sitting around in draft form since yesterday morning.  after putting them on here and getting on with my day i proceeded to have a ......very......long......day.  and not in a good way.  i will spare you the details. 

however to give you a feel for the thing i will share with you the very end of it.

i was driving home at midnight which parenthetically is WAY past my bedtime.  i was about 5 minutes from my house on a smallish highway driving about 55 mph.  when i hit a deer. 

i'm tempted to describe the event to you in some detail because it was rather surreal.  not your usual everyday sort of thing.  all slow motion and swerving and trying not to do something like flip the car and end up in a ditch with flashing blue lights.  etc.

the deer was a pretty tawny thing with one of those dark sooty deer noses.  it was cold out but not too and as the deer lay there on the side of the road i could see the heat of it's body steaming up into the night.

at first i thought it was dead.  and i was relieved.  but then it became quite clear it was not. 

it took awhile for the police officer to show up with his shotgun.

so that is that friends.  maybe it has happened to you.  it had never happened to me.  but as i was falling asleep last night on the sofa after watching a part of the late show, which i don't think i have done for some 20-odd years.....i was thinking about the deer.  it was that moment when i first saw it right to the left of my car.  it was running.  and for a moment it just felt like me and the deer were running together.  me in my car and the deer on the pavement in the night.  running together.  it was a nice moment.  the dark, the headlights, the deer's rythmic running.