Third day of August on a mountain trail, paused on a flat to let my heart catch up with me, a hummingbird sounds off so near, sun coming up to the rear, on the trail ahead peeks a deer, there’s a certain feeling that I get in a wilderness, yes of course there’s a feeling of wild but also there’s a gentleness, a connection to the naturalness of being alive that is so much more than just a feeling of needing to survive