Note to readers,
it is Tradition within the Wholistic Fitness® Path to always recognize publicly the Noble Efforts of those who produce the altars upon whose terrain we spill our sweat…this is an actual excerpt i recently wrote to the Rio Grande Sun, a small newspaper covering the remote northern New Mexico area wherein many secret, sacred spaces vibrate…
C(om)mitment to an effort is a hard thing for many to accept. It is easier to just go skiing or snowshoeing than it is to train for skiing and snowshoeing. Then again, it’s easier to just eat a Snickers bar than to will oneself not to. Easier to just get drunk and forget problems than to stand sober to their challenge. For those who have touched bliss through the discipline of training there is no longer a question of “easier” or “harder.” There is only the Path Higher. For those who battle against mainstream mediocrity born from an addiction to comfort and duality a sagacious fulfillment of a much Higher sort is realized. It is..
Happy 84th to my precious M(om)…may feeble ilg be so ALIVE with the CHI as her…and yes, that is my 55 year-old older sis, Constance Ilg with my M(om)…and a Happy 45th to my little brother Craig who was born on my M(om)’s b-day! — with Constance Ilg.
Two races this season, and two wins…both coming less than 2 weeks after severely spraining my MCL (while dancing with Dewa, of all things!)…
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“The sacred snows are falling.
Far up river a silver curtain closes.
Clouds grow
and coldness spawns
across the meadows.
Seek strength through suppleness,
not through force.
that my Noble Friends?
is called, Listening,Trusting, and DOING what the Deities prescribe for you…
“As a 50+ year-old steadfast student of sustained high heart-rates while immersed in diversified outdoor sports has and continues to reveal more to feeble ilg about the nature of lower mind (manas), ego (ahamkara), and Higher Mind (buddhi) to me than all my university level and personally-pursued studies of comparative religion and spirituality.
today; i left an extraordinary snowshoe workout (more on that tomorrow only for WF.com Members!) up a local Sacred Peak only to return to civilization with an abunDance of…
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