In the forest as we watch, listen, and feel, we learn how to proceed in life, how to make critical decisions, how to be disciplined and guided, both as individuals and as a species.

With forest in our minds we then have the planet in our minds. We will therefore have the future in our minds as we open to the mystery, power, and presence that has always informed the human journey.

This most certainly is a time for us to draw ourselves into a vital reciprocity, an interdependence, a companionship with the powers of earth and the cosmos beyond. Here in the forest are new friends and a community in which we feel we belong, an intimacy that comes from knowing home.