Goosepen Goosepen— a fire cavity at the bottom of tall redwoods where farmers hide their chickens, ducks and geese during rainstorms. The word is not cited in Webster Unabridged Dictionary or American Heritage Dictionary. Found under "goose" in the OED— "a pen or enclosure for geese" or "a quill pen", but no reference for usage except in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night: "write with a goose pen". At Muir Woods, Conan Doyle wrote on majesty of redwoods— "nothing, not even fire, can destroy them. Saw brushfire scars in their flanks." Don McLellan, the Humboldt Hermit lived a year in a redwood goosepen with woodstove on the ground floor and straw mattress on second floor. Madame d'Aulnoy published in 1697 a fairy tale "Princess Rossette" on people going to consult an old hermit living in a hollow tree— a goosepen? Goosepens are coveted den sites for hibernating bears & colony of bats. One goosepen in Prairie Creek held 109 fourth-grade students! While top of Redwood soars to heaven, the Goosepen is anchored to earth— both resembling Platonic Lambda Λ "Soul of the Universe" that is eternal. Shakespeare wrote "The poet's eye.. glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven..." Let's glance at Redwoods from top to bottom and experience heaven on earth here & now.       Peter Y. Chou       Mountain View, 10-1-2018 Top of Redwood Portolo Redwoods (7-1-2012) Redwood Goosepen Portolo Redwoods (7-1-2012) Inside Advocate Tree Looking Out (9-6-2009) Goosepen Redwood to Sky Purisima Creek (9-6-2010)