My friend Connie Caldes is a gifted shaman. She has journeyed for me on occasion and each time it is an enriching

experience.  She did a soul retrieval for me today and I wrote about it in the poem below. Her website is

Shamanic Dreamtime .

A Piney Wood

The little girl inside of me walks a piney path

following herself home to a hollow tree.

Owl mother beams at her joyfully

as she kneels to crawl into the hole of

the old tree.

Little girl cares for owl babies

until her heart softens into sunlight

and she listens to the wind through

the pines.

Owl mother and her babies,

little girl inside of me all

feeding on love that cares

for all that live.

Now the little girl has returned

to live with me in my grownup home

where I listen to her until my

heart grows warm and melts like wax.

Vicki Woodyard