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| Skyelark's Splendor In The Grass |
Skyelark takes early retirement, out of the Sheep Herding business(HAHA)
A Little Reflection:
We all are co creators of our current world through our choices, our decisions, our intentions. The best we can do is live as various as possible. THE savage and beautiful country that we’ve created and are still creating between where we begun and where we’re going continues.
This quote
by Diane Ackerman speak to us Are you ready to climb aboard?
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day. Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding, and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours, life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length. It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”
We hear
the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along an
infinte shore. We get paid for the
waiting, the work is free…. There is
nothing to do but wait. The long hours of travel and preparation to get
to Shetland, and then the longer hours of waiting. All for that one turbo
charged, adrenaline-rushing vision when the island suddenly declares itself. We are no longer a
passenger in our own life, riding the bus, but in the driver’s seat. We are
adding moments and length to our life, but also, and more importantly, width.
Merely
walking along these cliffs, is like walking in the sky. I don’t have to look
up. I breath it in deeply, the millions of molecules of sky, and then exhale
them back into the world…. Walking is a celebratory event and prayer, and a
deeper form of inquiry. It insinuates itself and informs the day.
The rock pool plunge value adds to the experience of my experiments with truth- Beauty is truth truth is beauty.
