Middle school play
When I went away to college, self-discovery excited me while the unknown frightened. Finding yoga grounded me and gave me a safe haven of discipline, ritual, silence and breath. I wonder how much better off my students will be since they get meditation and yoga in school at an even younger age.
The middle school play discussed how life can be lonely, sad, thrilling and painful. I have seen many souls perish by the seduction of escaping from life. A seeming indescribable oppression takes hold and the mind knows not how to register. To engage in life takes commitment and belief. We can escape, in a life affirming manner, the prison our mind creates, confining us to proper roles and identities - who we think we are or should be. That is why reading and imagination are so fundamental to freedom -to creating new dreams when the old paradigms no longer work.
Whereas the author, Kate Chopin, was seduced by the sea, the voice of the mountain never ceases, whispering, lurring, inviting my soul to wander in solitude, to lose itself with birds, flowers and trees, breathing in and breathing out, in inward contemplation as my eyes feast on beauty.
I miss my daily walks through the woods in Flagstaff.
Those walks are very healing for the mind and soul. You must return soon
Feasting on Beauty! I like tha. I like to think of it as Drinking in Beauty thru my eyes to have that moment in time to remember as the saying goes to cease the moment loosing your self in nature is paramount we are a part of small in aur nature yet part of the bigger picture for each of us a peice of the spirit of life as with every thing that has the spirit of life that blossoms and grows.