I have always loved going into the woods. I grew up in the north even though I have lived most of my life in the south. We regularly camped in the Allegheny mountains as a child. My favorite plants are those from the woods. I wonder if gardening is nature or nurture. I long to grow those plants from the north that I just can’t grow down here. Bleeding hearts, cinnamon fern, paper lanterns, and others bring back a flood of natural emotion. Ferns and moss make my heart sing. As a child, I would play near any creek or stream. I didn’t mind going during colder months. I loved to treck through the snow and looked for tracks and scat.
In this rebirthing of myself, hiking was a part of me that I wanted to explore. But being single I wondered how?
It was quite easy. There are many meet up groups that hike. The difficulty for me was, could I hike as far as they could go? So, I simply developed my own inner-city woman’s hiking group. I became the webmaster. No, that is not someone who creates the website, but the person who leads the hike and takes down all of the spider webs in the early morning for the ladies following behind. I purchased camel backs to hold water, and hiking poles to help my ankles. My women loved hiking, and I enjoyed the inner city trek in the back trails. Hiking became my thing, though helping with dance instruction twice a week and leading hikes I had to be careful to space the exercise out and save my ankles.
The point of this post is to remind you that if you want to do something, if you find something that feeds your soul, you can find a way to do it. I met some incredible women who were tribal women through this adventure. I guess that is also a thing. If you want to friend tribal women, you must go where they go.
Take a hike!
Love, Pusche