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stuck

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Stuck between wireless worlds and learning how to wait.  The internet wasn’t working where we were this weekend and we’ve been pre-occupied with exploring the northern wilds of the province.

Between crazy work demands, we had a chance to hike a couple of trails I’ve been dying to do over the last few trips.  This one leads to the edge of a cliff along the Barron River Canyon.  I really like the idea of finding that edge and along this trail, it’s very possible.

That’s me on the right. Discovering I still love this outcrop as much as I did 15 years ago when I was younger and less daring.

Sometimes being stuck is just a matter of understanding my time and place.

Tomorrow’s post will feature a review of Deepak Chopra’s book, Buddha.  A surprising mix of concepts and style that … well… you’ll have to wait to hear about it.


Thank you for practising,

Genju



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let it go, let it go

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Look, the trees
are turning
their own bodies
into pillars

of light,
are giving off the rich
fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment,

the long tapers
of cattails
are bursting and floating away over
the blue shoulders

of the ponds,
and every pond,
no matter what its
name is, is

nameless now.

Every year
everything
I have ever learned

in my lifetime
leads back to this: the fires
and the black river of loss
whose other side

is salvation,
whose meaning
none of us will ever know.
To live in this world

you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it

against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,

to let it go.

In Blackwater Woods

~ Mary Oliver ~(American Primative)

With a deep bow to my friend, Miv, who posted this.