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@musicoutthewindow
8 months after the hike
Hiking the Appalachian Trail would solve everything I had hoped. 2,187 miles over 9 months ought to be long enough to get ones house in order yet here I am in my old hometown doing a job I did over twenty years ago for $3.25 more per hour. I'm okay with that for now. I fulfilled a dream. Accomplished something. What's next? Dare I live another dream?
From the AT journal a year ago
8/5/12 Rainbow Springs Campsite -> Nahmakanta Lake Beach 12.3 miles This campsite is just past the Wadleigh Stream Lean-to and I read great accolades about its beauty in the shelter log so here I am 0.5 miles south and quite pleased with the environs. Sitting here on the beach eating a Parmesan pasta side, drinking cold filtered water and watching a flock of mergansers swimming by to the right taking turns diving as they swim along the shore towards the spring and then turn left along another shoreline. And now look there's a loon swimming alone, in the middle of the lake and now it dives. My left ankle and heel hurt so I walk down the shore towards the spring. I walk knee deep in the cool water then back up to the beach where pebbles and sand massage my feet enough to make me giggle. Back down to the shoreline, almost at the spring, I surprise a polliwog and it swims into deeper water but not very far. It looks like a shiny frog but it also has a tail. I dig down into the sand where a very cold spring is flowing across the shoreline and then sitting on a dry smooth rocky stool I put both feet in up to above my ankles. The cold numbs me almost to pain so not quite as cold as last nights site but very close. My food is already stretched a bit too thin to take my time getting to Monson so I will look forward to some higher mileage days of 18-22ish mile ranges. I have five hot meals for dinners, a ziplock bag of oatmeal but it's only 3+\- cups, and an assortment of mostly cliff bars, pemmican bars and some odds and ends. I'm still glad I took the zero yesterday and think/hope/manifest that my body is on the mend. My new Big Agnes mattress pad is terrific and I have been sleeping much better because of its better cushioning than my last "self inflating" pad from EMS. @Crescent Lake-> also saw some wood hens or partridge and took pictures. 8/6/2012 13.2 miles Nahmakanta(sp?) Lake Beach -> Antlers Campsite Up a little after 6am from a great nights sleep thanks to the sound of water lapping at the shore of Nahmakanta Lake and a very steady rain late at night. Hiked along lakeshores, streams and rivers for much of the day. Some rocky, rooty and very muddy sections. I was crossing one of the later on steep stones and slipped off a rock to find myself sitting on a step stone covered halfway up each shin with woody forest mud. Went to Whitehouse Landing Hostel after all to eat a giant one pound burger and pick up some additions to my food larder and 50 ibuprofens (for 10 cents a piece) all of which will improve my experience through the 100 mile wilderness to Monson. Expect to be in Monson Friday or Sat. Or Sunday.......
Happy 2013 and February
Hiked the AT last year and got tons to post about it AND my new life in Washington DC so stay tuned.
SHIVA RA
The raindrops are the tears of mystery Babylon
the info we seek deemed not for the weak
but by August she'll be well tread upon.
Note this symbylon: ☼
Ra destroys the feral seed it's deed is verily imbalanced.
The good hearted fruitful ones reflect the cosmic love.
Ra, heatedly fosters growth as the flaming orb mother,
Consumes on the one hand and nurses in the other.
This is what 50-ish black vultures in a tree looks like.
Lake Champlain at dusk looking west.
Welcome to the Future
HAPPY 2012!!!
RBRP2
RBRP
Church Street, December 2011, Burlington, VT
how about those sporting events that recently occurred or that will happen in the future and the teams and or persons involved in participating in their occurring?
Familiar faces on the TV. Pretend friends. Substitute heroes. Being lonely and insignificant is not so bad. The struggle to matter versus just being ones self.
Wilderness and nature
In the United States we have specific definitions for what passes as wilderness. Borders are drawn up on maps. Metal signs are affixed to trees and posts. Rules are posted and there we have our wilderness.
Interestingly, we don't do the same for nature. Nature we suppose is something approaching wild. Nature comes right up to our property lines sometimes and within those property lines nature may or may not have some sort of freedom to express itself as nature.
something
so imagine that you were a corn stalk and you lived out in the fields all summer long enjoying the sun and relishing in the cooling rain. Imagine it was a cold storm but the ground where your roots are is always a comfortable 10 degrees cooler than the sometimes scorching sun amid a long dry spell.
You've had your time in the sun. You've made your seeds and mated on the wind to ensure future generations. Then animals come along and take the ears off your stalk but you, the corn stalk, are still alive but come the first freeze after declining light and no reason to grow further and you die.
Now- what if another species did something like that with human beings. It would be weird.
Occupy Your Heart
We are learning more these days and are becoming conscious of our worldwide human connections. The real revolution is in the evolution of your heart vibration.
the maze
Sometimes I used to feel like a rat in a maze only my walls were the monthly rush to pay the bills for the rent, electric, gas and the car I used to get to where I can make the money to pay those bills. I came to suspect that there were better ways that I could be spending my time. There has to be more to life than passing the "follows instructions and behaves well with others" criteria. That's what if feels like to me. All my life energy was just burning away while I awaited something that will allow me to live my life in the ultimate experience of this incarnation that I am living.