little bear licks, hugs, eats the eye of and says goodbye to the snow moon. 

i don't know if the empire will fall but it feels like the human family is disintegrating. or is that too pessimistic? i'd like for the empire to fall but the human family to consequently rise. but all may have to fall with this empire that assumes absolute control of everything excepting  the elementals of nature. 

ok, i'm going in to look at our new box of rocks.

i have more to say about the lost feeling about little bear.