Many societies have imbued the natural world with spirituality to unite society or understand common phonomena. By telling me your spirit animal, you are continuing this ancient tradition. What do you choose, and why?
A nest of hornets! I didn’t choose it.
This question came up at work and I was having the mother of all bad hair days. And the hornets came to me in a flash! Then I said, hmm… distributed architecture… collective decision-making… what’s not to like?
A white oak tree.
Seagull. Flap around breaking off, crapping on people and stealing French fries.
I’ve sad it before, I’ll say it again - the Sarcastic Fringehead.
The noble honeybee.
I’m going with Dolphin. Happy, joyful and fast.
And that singing voice would be awesome.
A sloth. I’m too tired to explain why.
Coyote - I’m clever, shy, adaptable, resilient and have a bit of mange.
Praying mantis, though I don’t pray and have never eaten my mate.
The humblest of all God’s creatures… The Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Probably a slug.
Ooo, that’s a toughie. Of all the animals in the world, I particularly love cheetahs, beavers, praying mantises (manti?) and bald eagles. And bald eagles are the coolest of those, so I guess I’ll go with that.
Ever heard of Seagull Management? Some guy flies in from the head office, makes a lot of noise, shits all over everything and then goes away again.
The bulldog.
“Well, hurray for the bulldog!”
Raven. Smart, wide-ranging, omnivorous, star of literature, legends and myths.
I’m built like a grizzly, but my children have declared that my spirit animal is a chipmunk. I am always on to the next thing or finding distraction everywhere! I can go on a hike and get distracted from watching mountain goats because I think I see a mountain lion track. It’s really bad- I am always looking around to a fault. When traveling the world, I have been asked for directions in nearly every country and city even though I am clearly not a local. I just make eye contact with everyone and everything so people seem unafraid to ask and seem to think that I know (I’m talking being asked in French for directions in Paris, in German for directions in Hamburg, in Italian/German/French/??? in Rome).
So Chipmunk I am.
Pangolin. Weird looking, solitary, uselessly curls up in a ball when frightened, soon to be extinct.
Galapagos tortoise
A very large, oblong-ish hippopotamus.
A slug might be the spirit animal… of Spirit airlines.