PEAK EXPERIENCE: Meditative bliss with the most Zen-like creatures alive
GUEST COLUMN: JOANNE EHRICH
I’d always had this thing about Australia’s exotic creatures (When I was a girl, I had a pet cockatiel and parakeet, butterflies with scintillating blue wings and lime-green Aussie beetles in my insect collection). But it would be a couple of decades before I made my ultimate discovery in the animal kingdom, and was utterly transfixed by yet another creature from Down Under — the koala.
A friend passed on a news story that a baby koala had been born at San Francisco’s metro zoo (Fewer than 10 zoos in the United States have koalas. Even fewer have koala births; so it made the local paper).
I was mesmerized the moment I saw this living and breathing koala mother with her baby at the Zoo. Little did I know how this experience would change my life forever. Continue Reading »
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