Came across my vision quest "field notes" and decided to put them here to save. "The aspen drew me to my spot, whispered my way to the top of a knoll in the Sacramento Mountains outside of Cloudcroft, NM" - Bear Heart had encouraged me to go out on this day, as he had sent out about 8 others for this vision quest event. "My spot is a squirrel home. I put down stones to mark my place next to buried pine cones where the squirrels had been busy earlier in the year, storing up for the winter. I feel at home and humbled. Seeing is vivid - like seeing everything that ever existed all at once. Squirrels playing, logs rotting, ants doing. I see invisible flying things - I saw invisible only because I have to squint, and it's all in the corner of my eye. Then, I spot an interesting red bee, who comes into my circle and stays all day. I look deep into one of the rotting logs and see a snake-looking creature." Bear Heart later calls it a serpent when I tell me about that. "I'm mesmerized with the water hole within the log that the little snake thing is swimming around in. There are thousands of sea shells all around me. I think of the ancient history of New Mexico like I'm part of history right then of millions of years earlier. The shells are super bright, super white and clean, like they are beaconing me to take them home. I do put some on my spirit stick. The wind sounds like a jet airplane overhead. There is something that reminds me of a burial mound nearby. I sleep but again I awake because there is a noise like an 18-wheeler or a goose! Then, I hear the drum echoing through from the camp site where Bear Heart and the others are staying, probably a mile or two away, but the drum sounds like it's a foot or two from me." Later, I tell Bear Heart about the red, big furry bee that hung out with me. He gave me a name "helps with life" (in Creek). I hope to envision this bee medicine. As it turns out, I had some interesting intersections with bees, honey, etc. over the next year.