by Dawn Patel | Nov 22, 2016 | abuse, children's book, friendship, healing, healing arts, healing from abuse, healing through art, identity, inner strength, overcoming hardship, scars, stories, storytelling, swan, tiger, ugly duckling
Authors note: I wrote and illustrated this story over 15 years ago. I never really did anything with it except to send it to one publisher and read it to the Quaker Friends Sunday School, and to my elementary students in Washburn, WI. Some recent events made me...
by Dawn Patel | Dec 15, 2014 | alley, birds, deception, fox, jackal, mystery, never-ending story, parallel universe, past lives, sentient beings, sidewalk, stories, storytelling, wolf
The world of the Sentient Beings has always been here. It’s just that we don’t always see.The Sentient Beings were in danger of becoming invisible to all. Jackal turned himself into a man, and tried to convince the people that these beings...
by Dawn Patel | Dec 13, 2014 | contemporary storytelling, deception, disguise, fables, lifetimes, make-believe, masquerade, never-ending story, parallel universe, quantum theory, reincarnation, stories, storytelling
mas·quer·adeˌmaskəˈrād/noun1. a false show or pretense.”his masquerade ended when he was...
by Dawn Patel | Dec 12, 2014 | animal husbandry, animals, be wild, contemporary storytelling, dancing jackal, domestication, ecology, fox, intuition, jackal, nature and man, sentient beings, stories, symbolism, the wild, totem animals, wild
The Sentient Beings: Jackal and the Story of IntuitionJackal lives her life with few enemies and becomes a trusting soul.Jackal meets man, and wants to play.When close, she senses something dangerous, and backs off. In another lifetime Jackal was a human....
by Dawn Patel | Dec 11, 2014 | animals, creative process, creativity, dawn patel art, fables, fox, jackal, lessons, life is stranger than fiction, moon, mystery, myth, nature, never-ending story, sentient beings, stories, storytelling, wolf
More Jackal… she is Dancing Jackal, after a long journey via magic arrow. During the long and reckless journey she is pierced by the arrow and has to land in a canyon where there is no escape. Dancing Jackal does not have the patience...
by Dawn Patel | Nov 29, 2014 | animals, art business, art for sale, creativity, dawn patel art, dreams, etsy, fairy tales, fantasy, fox, healing through art, jackal, laughter, painting, paintings, stories, wolf
Before there was Dancing Jackal there was Dreaming Jackal. He is a playful soul who has lived many lives and taken many forms. He most remembers his human self, and uses those lessons he learned in his new life as Jackal. Unlike his human self he...
