yah, Omnium, cuz just racing from Durango to Silverton is sooooo not wholistic! why just suffer ONE DAY when you can test your spirit and sweat over THREE days!
My response, “Love is all there Is. Love is the accumulated Divine Karma from our countless past lives which propels our Atman (Soul) into and cultivates the context of our next incarnation. Love is what bubbles to the egoic surface once we’ve scrubbed away Fear, Boredom, Judgment, and Anger. Love is…
“Are you okay Mommy if i go?”
Joy looked at her daughter through her sweat-soaked eyes and replied,
“Darling Girl? You GO, get that racer! I’ll see you at the Finish Line, my Love!!!” as her shouting voice trailed off into the divine reverberations of a snow-clad Cascade Canyon…
a cold October rain taps out a “go(o)d morning” as i attempt to pry Dewa (8) from her stapled self fixed onto my own body. yeah, we still co-sleep because? #1: there is no “co”…we are One. and #2: sleeping with your chi-ldren next to you is the most natural thing on this plane(t) to do; lest you have forgotten and thus forsaken your countless previous lives snuggled close to each other before we invented fire and slept for warmth next to the Soul Who Chose To C(om)e Through You for as long as possible…
pictured above: my Sacred Animas River manifesting full throttle the manifestation of White Man’s stupid attachment to monetary greed
“If you want to win the Human Race? you gotta stay focused on Enlightenment. You’ve been graced this Human Incarnation from your countless lives of competing since you did what it took to split the cell…don’t give up your Practice, drive deep into your weaknesses and develop wholeness because wholeness is the foundation of Enlightenment.”
by the Turn Around point at 7.6 miles? i knew i was going strong; sure i had moments of weakness…ahamkara (ego) pleading, “Stop this pain! Less pressure! you’ll blow up on the final climb!” and other such egoic bullshit. The Wholistic Fitness® cure for such lower mind antics? Mantra. Recenter on the Breath. Keep the Cadence…surrender to the wind, the rain, the mud…and i did. Felt Eagle Medicine sweep me through the highly dangerous final curve into the final 3k climb…i settled willingly into the Pain Cave wherein the Noble Silence empowered my pedaling…
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