The woods are falling asleep. You can finally see the sky underneath her tree branches. It feels so empty. Today’s walk was very relaxing, but also so fitness fueled. We went from probably the lowest point in the woods to the highest point in the woods. Ms. Shannon wouldn’t let me take home a walking staff I found in the woods. Well, it wasn’t a walking staff yet, but I’m sure if I whittled it down and sanded it, the stick would have been a great walking stick. It was really more of a staff, but alas, it was too big to take on the bus home. One of these days I will get my driver’s license, and then I can take all of the woodland treasures home!
It was a very lovely meditative walk. Being able to center ourselves to the woods and become one with nature was really nice. I think the best part was when I couldn’t keep up with the group and stayed behind with Ms. Shannon and Kit. Being able to walk at my own pace was so helpful, and I was finally able to stay present in the woods. The sky legitimately looked like an anime sky, the blue was too perfect to be real.
Even though there is so much death in the woods right now, there was still so much life to be had. The birds were flying overhead when I was laying down in the leaves, and the crunch of the forest floor brought back childhood memories of jumping into leaf piles with my brother when I was five and he was nine. It makes me miss the giant Sugar Maples we had out in the front yard of my home. When I move out and buy my first house, I want to have two sugar maples and the biggest pine tree in my yard. I want to bring a little bit of the wilderness back home.
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