Mountain Abode

When we first came here, I was pushing against the grip of a society that did not agree with my core needs nor beliefs.

Forging a place for us on this mountain seemed the only option, and as we arrived, I felt our vulnerability as nature could have annihilated us.

We, in turn, could have chosen to put up traps for the wasps and bees and flies. We could have poisoned scorpions and rodents. We could have inflicted damage.

Instead, I wanted us to live in harmoney – and surprisingly, after some mutual back-and-forth testing and mistakes, nature agreed!

Subtle phenomena shiftings can be powerful, and the forest could have plagued us by every season.

But, we all settled into an acceptance of mutual beneficence, with a companionship we may have all needed.

Nature does not wish to have conflict: this is not how she is designed for longevity.

Her whole purpose is to help provide balance and to watch her children grow healthy from the tiniest of seeds.

We were taken under nature’s wings like wild-weed saplings.

We were “bent, but not broken” – with a fierce desire to overcome hardship and achieve.

She gave us a place to rest and find our ease, a place to exorcise our demons without any humans interfering.

And now, she opens her arms withiout restraint and sets us free, knowing we will bring good to our new community.

I hope she is proud of us.

I hope she knows how she’s helped us recover, and that we’ll carry her in our hearts as we discover how good life can truly be.

We have learned Nature “sees the forest for its trees.” It has been such a blessing to come to know her.

We needed her love, and she gave it as she helped wash our souls clean.