Mount Shasta Vision Quest: July 24-30, 1989 Surprise Lunch with Two Feathered Friends       Hammond's Flycatcher eating sunflower seeds from           Peter's hand at Mt. Shasta camp base, 7-28-1989 "He Ye! He Ye! He Ye! He Ye! He Ye!" Six students in Nina's journal class chant to Mt. Shasta, holding our hands in a circle asking the Spirit to bless our vision quest. Medicine Man Charlie Thom "Redhawk" conducts a sweat-lodge ceremony and tells me there's no Indian Bible, picking up a handful of dirt— "Our Bible is Mother Earth and Father Sky as well as the wind, the trees, the birds— all part of the Great Spirit." On the fourth day, I walk into a forest of tall Douglas firs and sit on a log for lunch, arranging twelve sunflower seeds in a circle nearby. "Treep-treep-treep"— two gray and white Hammond's flycatchers peck them away. Now I place raisins and sunflower seeds on my left hand— the birds take turns flying on my palm, my fingers as their landing strip. WOW! I feel so blessed. One journal writer Robin on seeing this, thought I was Saint Francis, and left her journal on the rock, which we recovered the next day. I don't know if these birds trailed me to our base camp, for one flycatcher flies on my palm again and Virginia snapped a photo of the birds and me in harmony.   — Peter Y. Chou        Mountain View, 9-12-2017        Recounting event of 7-27-1989

Charlie Thom "Red Hawk" Mt. Shasta Medicine Man talking to our Journal group Participated in Sweat Lodge Ceremony conducted by Hurak Elder "Red Hawk" at Mt. Shasta Medicine Walk (July 1989) Close-up of bird eating from Peter's hand (July 28, 1989) Hammond's Flycatcher flew to my hand during hike for raisins & sunflower seeds