Just today I learned to use my first (new to me) digital camera and took some photos of me and my beloved woodland home. here I am contemplating it all as I prepare to head out in the morning.

Here I go. I am done with graduate school now, after three years. I am fertile with myriad possibilities and have so many opportunities, the world is wide open! It is almost overwhelming, and yes a little scary. While big decisions await, mostly I want only adventure for awhile, with long vast stretches of forestlands, being with people I love, dancing, singing, myth & poetry. I leave behind the books, papers, urban expanse, and rather intense anxiety. I touch the Earth with my bare hands and feet, swim in the waters, soak in the hot mineral springs, ascend to the top of mountains where I can look over my life from way high up and lose track of time. Enter the timelessness and dwell there for awhile. I need to remember how to run fast - like the wind. I have come this far and it is an amazing feat.

I celebrate myself and sing myself - Walt Whitman