Warrior Priestess

The Lady of the Forest is a warrior priestess. I'm not sure what branch of the service she is in but when she serves it is in the Middle East. She doesen't have a husband, boyfriends she does have and she has a cute baby girl. I don't see her for months at a time and her mother looks a lot like her, blond, older but that same unhappy smile. An almost forced smile while she looks in the distance as if things are better somewhere else but not here.

She is leaving in July for an apartment in Portland. She gave us a bag and a half of briquettes, two planters and a barbecue cage for grilling fish. She said one of the trees is tilting after Village Idiot cut off some of the major limbs that hung over on his side of the property. That's Village Idiot for you, never thinking what his actions will cause and of course, Lady of the Forest draws her energy from the trees. That's why she now needs to move to Portland where there are a lot of trees. She needs their energy because of her job as a warrior priestess.

She is home from the war but knows that someday soon she will have to return to the killing fields and watch as death descends on innocent children and their families. That's  why it is so important for her to have the energy the trees give her. To maintain the balance she needs to be sane until she can come home and end her involvement with us, as a nation, at war and we are always at war with someone.