She walked through the mossy green trees, feeling the softness of the forest floor beneath her bare toes. To her left there was a small clearing, and standing tall, among the Oregon grape, and salal; sunlit fireweed, sashayed it's luscious pink spires in a celebration of summer.

The air was fragrant with succulent wild Thimbleberries that lined the paths, and covered much of the ground beneath the hazel, and filbert trees; ripe and near-ready to share their bounty with the squirrels, impatiently chattering in a maple tree nearby.

The woman startled as she came across a young Jack rabbit, as she quietly padded through the avenue of fledgling trees. The late afternoon sun caught the luminous threads of silk-spun Spiders webs, each holding the jewels of it's prey, in gold and silver shackles.

The Jack rabbit stamped once, and was gone. Surprised at how her pulse had quickened, and how good it felt. She felt somehow more alive!
Standing tall, she threw her head back, hands by her side, and inhaled deeply, and fully, into her entire being; directing the flow of oxygen into every molecule of herself with her intention, down deep into her viscera, her core.

As she did so a huge smile spread across her face, now bathed in sunlight, and recognition: serene, and utterly complete.