A True Story At Lone Wolf Lake

The black and white photo in this collage is probably the timing of this experience. In this pic my younger sister, Bev, and I were visiting our uncle’s place where he kept horses for trail rides in the bush near his farm. His daughter, our cousin, Lori Thicke, has written a book coming out on Indigo shelves this April (by Simon and Schuster publishers) called Dreamer’s Daughter, which will probably include at least one story about that farm as well. Uncle Dacker was quite a colourful character with an interesting life. As for my story here, I never saw the Big Bad Wolf again. No wonder!

Divine Diversity

Divine Diversity

I celebrate Diversity

(also called Heterogeneity)

in Life- in Nature, in People,

in different ways of being,

in different ways of living,

in different ways of thinking,

in different characteristics

and different properties,

in different physical forms-

all Life’s divine Creativity.

I celebrate Diversity

in Earth’s physicality,

in its lands and waters,

in its many creatures,

including all of us,

many different shapes,

different sizes and weights,

different textures and colours,

different feathers and furs,

different hair, skins and scales.

I celebrate Diversity,

not vulnerable Monocultures

of global agriculture,

of crops and animals,

of people only tolerant

of people identical,

a hive mind of uniformity

educational and political,

religious and physical,

a limiting Homogeneity.

Co-creating our lives with Life,

will we eventually be

bland, grey and infertile,

or robotic and mechanical

in a future Humanity?

I love Life as it grows

and evolves in Diversity

with Homogeneity

a limited (not destructive)

part of its functionality

interspersed in Life Diverse.

Diversity is Divine.

December 11, 2025

Shelley A. Wilson

my poem text on photos sent to me by my daughter Alissa