Perrilee Pizzini

Alone On The Taiga Perrilee Pizzini

She longs for the feeling she had as a girl playing in the woods after school. This successful career woman feels depleted. To interact with a group of women friends at a retreat center has been restorative, but not what she needs now. She discards the idea of traveling alone on a cruise, a resort vacation, or a tour, and the expectations of men. Just the thought of interaction twenty-four/seven is exhausting. As a woman living in a metropolitan area, she has become aware of being bombarded as she strolls through a park after work, the awareness of the drug dealers and the constant vigilance of not being run over by the bicyclists on the sidewalk, all of these interfere with thinking and feeling-allowing no time just to be. When offered an opportunity to spend time alone in the wilderness-she took it. Isolated in the largest National Park in the United States she basked in the purity of nature on a small river in Alaska; she has the time and desire to face being alone with her thoughts and look at her fears. Observing the beauty of the simple life sharing the wild animals' home brings about the ability to think about living life in Seattle with renewed strength, vitality and hope. Sharing time with her in a rustic cabin brings you closer to your inner being.