I like those nature stores. Do you have any more? I do got another one. Okay, so this one, this one was from 2015. And so, in 2015, I was hitting a pretty low point in life, you know, my healing practice wasn't going that gray line struggling with finances, and I was kind of in a really low spot. And so a friend of mine wanted to go on this backpacking trip to Glacier National Park up into the northwest corner of the park.

And I said, Sure, let's go you know, as long it's like some to look forward to. And so when we get there, which is something never happens on an outdoor trip. I'm really depressed. I'm going into this trip really depressed and I can't really shake it and, and, you know, as bombed, and so we get up to this lake called Kyla lake. It's the very northwest corner of the park. And there's a campground where you can camp overnight and so we're gonna stay there the first night then we're going to take off for the next four days.

And so I didn't really want to hang around with my friend because I felt like I was a real downer. And so I took off that late afternoon, and I started walking down Kent Lake Creek, which is the outlet from the lake. There's no trail or anything. And so I'm just kind of in my flip flops and are in my sandals and shorts and waiting down the creek. trying to you know, wondering how I'm gonna get out of this funk that I'm in Yeah, so So as I'm walking down ankle deep in the creek, I hear something rustling in the in the brush and I'm you know, first thing you think of inflation. That's a bad answer.

It's a giant grizzly bear that's gonna eat me. Yeah, and hear it hear this thing rustling the bush that hops up on this login as a squirrel. So the squirrel runs up this log, which is maybe I don't know 10 yards off the creek and runs up to Southern login It runs up on this other snag that's hanging over the creek about 10 yards in front of me. Okay? And so the squirrel stops and looks at me, maybe 10 yards away, it's maybe 10 feet high and starts chattering like crazy. It's like, give me golf, you know?

And so I look at says, Can you help take the sadness from me? I said it out loud to the squirrel. No, so I'm really struggling here. Can you help me? So the squirrel turns around, runs back down the log, runs down the other log goes parallel to the creek hops on this other log. That is like, ends up right next to me.

It runs up this log. It's like, you know, this, I could touch the squirrel. And then it jumps on me. I couldn't believe it. I go, Hey, what are you doing? And then it jumps off and ran away and I just started laughing.

I just started laughing like crazy. I couldn't hold it in and so so you know, it's like, it's like a totally remarkable moment. You know? And so the next day we take off for our hike. You know, here I am, I'm floundering. I'm looking for direction in life and the squirrel comes and jumps on me, you know.

And so we take off on our hike the next day. And it was really smoky. It was so smoky you could barely see across the lake. And then the next day we were going to do some elevation about 3000 feet. We're going to hike at this camp, this place called boulder pass. And as we're hiking up to Boulder past, the weather moves in, and so the temperature drops about 30 degrees.

We get up this boulder pass clouds move in, and it starts snowing. You know, and so the only thing and this is August, you know, yeah. So we get our tents, you know, put up as quick as we can eat something really quick and just like, you know, sit in our tents all night. You know, like 12 hours in your tent. And then you look at and then we looked at the next morning and there's like three inches of snow everywhere. But the wind blew through, and it cleared out smoke.

So this is like very symbolic all of a sudden. So I'm free of this depression, and the skies are now clear, and the white snow but not for long, not for long because it warmed up that day to probably 70 degrees again, the snow was gone in a couple hours. And then we continued on to our trip. And so it's like I had, okay, this girl's gonna help me. All this anger gets blown out by the wind and the snow. And then we had a great trip and then I went back home.

And then the next week, so this is the kind of the cause and effect thing. So glacier did this big energy healing on me. Now I'm going back home to see and I wasn't really paying attention to anything. But later that week, I went kayaking, and we're doing laps on the toenail. I found a crawdad in the river, get out, get out of here. And so this crawdad was tangled up in this fishing line.

I let it go and I believe you were the one said that would make it real Great children's story, Rachel. And so that was like the first of 30 children's books that was right. All working out. It ended up working out