Sunrise in the Forest

Dear Kahakapao,

I'm full of anticipation in the morning wondering if the sky will be clear and the rising sun will slice through the trees to illuminate the forest floor, the pine trees and the ti leaves. It's a chilly morning with some cloud cover, so I don't have high hopes, but I know the sky shifts and changes quickly. I'll know when I get a mile or two into the forest because by then the sun will rise over the ridge.

It turned out that today was a glorious morning. The sun shone through the tall trees with spotlights on the trail, the trees and the leaves. Moments like this take my breath away and fill me with a sense of awe and a surge of joyfulness and freedom and bliss.