I am building a tree fort
Out among the cedars
Looking up at underbellies of chicadees
Delighted to see the dance of the nuthatch
Pecking its way downward
Not really a tree fort
It only feels that way
as I work amidst the branches
replacing a collapsed roof
under which I store wood
Hidden in the trees it is
a place to sit unseen
to look out on the rain
streaking down to nourish the land
while a little wren hops
along the edge of the blackberry row
a place of escape to just be
sitting on a woodpile
melding with the natural world
or at least aspiring to
Radha
About Me
- Radha
- I am a recently retired Kootenay gal (after almost 40 years in health care)How amazing to have the freedom to choose how I spend my time. I dedicate a lot of it to my home and property; tending fruit trees, vegetable, herb and flower gardens and mucking with a small pond where I am entertained by fish.I call it Tall Trees, an appropriate name, surrounded as it is by mostly large cedars and firs. I am often visited by elk and deer and the occasional bear and take total joy in all the birds and their songs. I share the place with my two cats. Other frequent visitors are my daughter and two grand children. Writing is another passion and now more time to read all manner of books. I am fortunate to have found spiritual community in both a Sufi and Dances of Universal Peace circle. I am one of several leaders of the dances in the Nelson area. I try to take time for outdoor recreation, biking the rail bed, swimming and canoeing the rivers and walking along them. Although winter is a more inward time, I get out on snowshoes and with a snow shovel and enjoy the beauty of each new snowfall. I have recently joined a writing group. Singing may be next.
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