This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. Susan Polis Schutz

As one who has lived a while there is much truth in this quote. A forest is a community. Everything has a purpose and a niche to fulfill and there is no one dictating the rules or the yes or no. There is only being and experimenting. I have played games, but this is the first interactive internet event that truly creates a community. Having no rules, no text, and little cultural trappings forces one to recreate community everytime you play. The same deer are never there so every time you choose either to play alone or establish relationships with the others. It simulates a walk in forest not only symbolically visually but also how we feel, and think while there. It lets us work out our feelings, stresses and anger in a safe way. It includes the deepest part of ourself our spirit by the visual symbols chosen to represent a forest. In a short time you create with self and others an intimacy among a group that is rarely experienced in our modern life. It is one of the few sites that plays to our best self instead of our base self. That is one of the things art does for us. It lets us experience our life and spirit in a way that is pure and honest with out all our cultural trappings and let us take journeys in the dark and negative without all the usual consequences. Then it allows us to come out on that other side refreshed and renewed and leaving as much dark as we are able behind. I am always looking for something different and this is different. This is not truly a game. The creators have found a way to make art interative in a hands on sense with a group. It would be a great tool for therapy and psychologists.