[Paddlewise] rain forest...

>From my journal - a few days ago.  Written as if to someone...

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..Yesterday, I was feeling a bit down, so I decided to take my kayak 
to lake Quinault.  It was sunny down here at the coast, but when I 
got to the lake, there were low clouds with "fingers" reaching down 
into the trees of the surrounding mountains, patches of fog reluctant 
to leave the lake's surface, a beam of sunlight here and there.  The 
water was calm and glassy, only disturbed by the occasional moments 
of light rain.  I love it when it's like this at the lake, and the 
feeling matched the quietness of my mood.  
 
After a little episode of rain, I would paddle along the shore, 
underneath the trees.  The sound of water dripping down through the 
branches, and finally reaching the water around me, was sweet music 
indeed.  The smell of trees - sitka spruce, douglas fir, cedar, 
moss-covered maple - was intoxicating.  A bald eagle swooped down 
through the fog, and passed over me no more than four meters above my 
head.  We made eye contact. For a moment, the contact was deeper than 
sight.  I paddled slowly - for hours, miles, and through a little 
patch of forever. 
 
I came home last night still a little sad perhaps, but there was a 
lightness that wasn't in me before - still floating in the fog and 
sunlight of that magical place - still breathing the richness of the 
trees.  Who needs therapy when there is this planet?
 
 
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Melissa
(just a visitor to this planet, but trying to enjoy my stay!) 

ps:   Was I wearing my PFD?  You decide.  ;-) 
 


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