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Before I say anything in this weeks post I would like to offer a link to another blog that has been a joy for me to read every week. As you may know I spent most of my life in and around New York City fully caught up in the vastness of what a great urban environment can offer. Clifford Browder, who is a well published writer offers wonderful weekly insights as to how life in NYC was, and is currently. His writing is excellent, thoughtful and beautifully crafted - well worth a look and a read. Reading his blog for me is a reminder of some of the conversations we have had over the years about everything that came up and how important it is to stop and listen to those who are open fully to what life has put in front of them.
Worth a look - click here: http://cbrowder.blogspot.com/
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On a gloomy day in Acadia last weekend the woman below reminded me of my own wait for the ending of Fall and the coming of Winter. I felt a nostalgia that gray days between seasonal changes tends to bring, a small saddness for the ending of warm weather while looking into the horizon for what is coming.
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Labyrinth - a walking meditation in the form of a circular maze on the ground that leads one in a continuous path to the center and back our again. It offers a spiritual walk that takes us out of perceptions of order and knowable direction into the unknown, where we learn over time to be comfortable in a space that may have always felt scary, perhaps to be avoided as well.
Below are four images of a single crooked tree that I offer as a visual labyrinth to be viewed slowly to see what they may offer as you go from one to another. I welcome any insights that you may have in this brief "walk."
- Start here, return here by coming back through the images -
Winter
Spring
Summer
Fall
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Here is the famous labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral that has been walked since the 13th century. Click on it and 'walk' it with your mouse or finger in full screen. One always takes one's time in a labyrinth, a slow walking meditation.
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Every leaf has Light within its form
which, when it is allowed to escape
into the open eyes of a beholder,
brings forth a hither-to-unseen beauty.
Sun on the Autumn trees with rain clouds nearing.
(This is the road Lee and I live on.)
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Until next week, Peace, Bill Lagerstrom
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