In the tradition of the great trickster teachers, Little Coyote is the Learning Human. The fool's eyes open. He is young. He is certain. He is wrong about nearly everything, and yet the animals around him are in no hurry to rush him. Each one extends to him understanding and mentoring in their own ways of wisdom.
A mouse who talks back. A bear who knows where one's heart is to found. A bat who navigates in absolute darkness with confidence. A raccoon who washes a stone without any water.
Eighteen teachers. Eighteen lessons in what it means to be awake in the world.
"The mountain doesn't care about your aggression. It doesn't care about your spiritual insights either. It only cares about your footing."
-- Desert Bighorn Ram
Little Coyote Tales, Tome One is the first of two volumes in a complete thirty-six story arc -- six gyres of learning from a young coyote's first encounter with grief to the discovery that mastery is just another word for beginning again. Published by Dreamforge Studio.