Breathing with the Disagreeable

Written by: Geneviève Hicks

The Deep Time Liberation Retreat, for descendants of the African diaspora, was cancelled due to the pandemic.  Ancestral healing would have to wait.  Visiting slave plantations with the support of Black practitioners and teachers was not going to happen.

Now I had two weeks of unplanned time off from the hospital.  I was sad to miss this retreat, and yet grateful for the respite from the current healthcare grind.

I decided to get up early every morning and walk around parts of my Seattle Maple Leaf neighborhood that I had not yet explored.  In that process I discovered Kingfisher Natural Area on Thornton Creek.  I also took a lot of pictures of flowers.

While exploring all the nooks and crannies the Kingfisher area, I found some beauty underneath the 15^th Avenue NE Bridge.