Soon it came time to leave and as we readied ourselves to head to our lodgings for the night an extraordinary thing happened. Suddenly he stood up, chanting in what he later would describe as a long lost Indian language, and ran up the side of a small hill next to the site we were gathered at. We quietly sat and observed him as he turned to the four directions and continued talking in a deep baritone voice. The beautiful language flowed from his mouth, enveloping the silence of the area. Dave always said he was a bear hiding as a man. Stature wise he can be an intimidating figure at six foot six and three hundred pounds. Yet he is as gentle as a he is large. After seeing him stand on the hill I just about believed he could be a bear.

As he motioned the four directions a gentle breeze would blow in; first from the south, than the north, than the west, and finally the east. Afterwards he silently walked down the hill and sat back down in his chair, tears flowing down his cheeks.

"It is just a special thing to experience when this happens," he said almost in a whisper. "The spirit flows through me and it feels like such an overwhelming experience. Such a great feeling of love."

"I understood what you were saying," exclaimed David. "You were calling in the blessings of the ancient ones and the four directions of the wind."

"Perhaps." He stated. "I never know what is being said. But I can get a general feeling. What you say feels right."

It only took a few moments to return to Carla's trailer. By now it was around nine pm and as we sat on the deck sipping our coffee and chatting about the days events we watched the sky as it gradually gave way from being overcast and filled with clouds to a crystal clear sky with hundreds of stars. It took only fifteen minutes for the clouds to give way and the stars to appear. A perfect circle of stars poking through the clouds as if someone had taken a cookie cutter and pressed it through the clouds over our heads. Stars so bright and so numerous they filled the sky. I sat mesmerized as I stared at the sky that had suddenly filled with lights. And right in the center, drifting within the circle of lights, was tremendous triangular craft. You could not make out distinct features, but you could see where the stars were hiding behind the vast size of the craft as it floated across the sky.

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