Splendor in the Grass: Skyelark’s Kangaroo Leap Through the Silage
Skyelark takes early retirement, out of the Sheep Herding business (HAHA).
Rock Pool Rocks! The resumption of the Cold Water Immersion baths, after yesterday's gale winds stymied the ritual.
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 variously as possible. The savage and beautiful country that we’ve created and are still creating between where we began and where we’re going continues.
This quote by Diane Ackerman speaks 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 infinite 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 passengers in our own lives, but in the driver’s seat. We are adding moments and length to our lives, 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 breathe it in deeply — the millions of molecules of sky — and exhale them back into the world. Walking is a celebratory event and a prayer, and a deeper form of inquiry. It insinuates itself and informs the day.
The rock pool plunge adds value to the experience of my experiments with truth — Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.