all ilg knows fr(om) a Blessed Lifetime of climbing higher?
is that the more we turn TOWARD – not away from – the STEEPEST, SCARIEST things in our life?
The GREATER the INNER REWARD which c(om)pounds an insanely high degree of inner personal sacredness over the course of our lives…
Rene Daumal so eloquently observed( THANK YOU, MAHA!)
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.”
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after training core, fingers, and flame out bouldering in the Plastic Temple, ilg went to ilg’s day job as Head Trail Manager at Edgemont Highlands where ilg supervises and manages over 10 miles of trails for the Blessed Residents of Edgemont Highlands, which, ilg kinda considers the BH (Beverly Hills) of Durango. not just tossing out that comparison; lived in LA for over a decade and trained clients in BH while teaching Pilates under Stephan Frease eons before Pilates became a “thing”…more in my next book.
Don’t know if y’all know about our epic flooding here in Durango and more devastating downriver from us for the precious neighbors in Farmington, Bloomfield, Shiprock, and Mexican Hat… yet?
We got MORE rain coming in and ilg’s job is to quickly in between storms attempt to install and fix several critical drains along the trail system which ilg governs so as to mitigate damage to the residents property…
Today’s Sacred Sweat in that direction of Community Service:
this pic shows one 20 meter section of the 100 section of ilg’s inherited worse drainage designed mulch community system of the 10 miles of trails that ilg is solo responsible for to fix… omg…
what you cannot see in this After pic are 3 new drain installs… lm give you a close up of today most imporaant of 6 new drains to finally solve this 2 decade old trailwork drainage problem that ilg inherited..
“nothing is softer or more flexible that water, yet nothing can resist it.” – Lao Tzu
Blessed Be Thy Practice…
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