Here’s some exhilarating news about last night!
Parts of UK have been battered about by high winds last night (early hours of 5th Jan’12) and half of the following day. There have been gusts of winds reaching 60-70mph.
I was bust doing work on the laptop – and part of me kept wanting to go out in the garden and experience the stormy weather – cos I like doing that, and ave done so before (once went out by the coast at midnight to see the sea front in midst of 70+mph winds. Then promptly went back to the B&B I was staying, got April out of bed, wrapped up carefully, and got her out too … just for few minutes! Wow)
Back to last night – well, the winds hadn’t ceased, and by 4.45am, I fully succumbed to the temptation – got out of pyjamas, put on proper outdoor cloths, coat, scarf, hat – promptly carried my magical Sword – and went out to the Willow tree in the garden! And climbed the long ladder that’s been kept there… to mid-section of the tree (to branches above height of a 1st floor roof, but big enough to carry my weight without snapping).
It was fantastic! I stayed up there for a good 20 minutes, experiencing each wave of gusts – doing various visual and magical works , of clearing the cobwebs from my mind. (I had not been up the tree since the Neighbours had cut parts of it one afternoon, without our permission, and against our express instructions! And of course, I have been suffering bad back-pains and getting treatment – and it creates a slow-settling fear that itself can be debilitating). So it was good to be up there – to reconnect, and let go of that trauma, for me, and no doubt for the Willow tree too!
It must have been some sight – if anyone had seen me – standing up a tree at such night time, holding and waving a sword about, facing the winds!
At some points, I closed my eyes (after ensuring my foothold was secure and I wasn’t going to slip on damp tree-trunk or branches)- and just felt the tree sections move me about. It truly felt – if at all possible – like I was riding a Dragon in the sky!!
After such an experience – life looks different! And all of today, I have been working fiercely, as if there is a storm-force inside me.
There probably is one!
QuantumPhoenix 
what a truly lovely article, so descriptive of your expiereince. i was unable to go out in the winds as i was in bed in pain, so to hear about what it felt like was inspiring.