the fix

'WildWood' 28x42" oil pastel on panel; Kathleen Faulkner

I like to walk early in the morning.

It is quiet, no people.

I enter this divergent community 

that I feel more comfortable in 

than my own.

As I walk,

I breathe in the tree medicine 

while the bird songs

permeate the air.

It makes the day so much better.

soft green

'The Wilds' 12x12" oil pastel on panel;

Kathleen Faulkner

I spent a lot of time in the woods as a kid.

I always imagined the moss as a blanket 

that I could use if I were ever lost.

I still think that

when I see the large, green,

beautiful

carpet of living

earth.