how about YOU?!?! have you faithfully c(om)pleted the solo division of the Mt.Taylor Winter Quadrathlon? if not, do so THIS YEAR, and join me as on Feb. 16th, 2013…ilg returns to solo this Traditional Pilgrimage of WF! i haven’t soloed it since 2009 and i’ll need to see YOUR face on the soloist Start Line! review the Archives…see how so many WF Students like YOU have done what it takes to become Transformed by the WF Deities which hover over this Pilgrimage!
ilg has been steadfastly stalking this huge, beautiful Trout Being for the past several weeks in a not-so-secluded pool just off the Colorado Trail near my childhood home up Junction Creek Canyon, Durango, Colorado. i’ve been in my Zendo, applying not only the mandatory Mantra’s for the safety of any harming ilg might cause, but also the Zen Archery technique to catching (and releasing) this beautiful Trout for weeks…visualizing which fly i’m going use, my approach, what time of the morning, my presentation of cast, the drift, the mend…you know, all the other 10,000 Things which keep fly fisherpeople like ilg awake at night…well, FINALLY, the Universe aligned Herself so this new, old Daddy could combine a training run with yet another ninja assault upon my Present Precious Trout Podium Being…the girls left the house early enough and i was alone!!! so, of course, i picked up a burrito to go and a pear (a pear?) along with my Ilg Supreme from Sunrider Herbs…that’s when the hilariousness of the Divine began…
“fantastic wholistic Mt. Taylor pre-season training today! early am personal practice into inline skate to teach yoga, into an hour of indoor climbing with my Beloved Joy Kilpatrick, into an hour of inline skating at 14 mph/average along the bike path, passing bicyclists! tired and sacredly stoked…”
…when Joy was teaching yoga to Dewa’s kindergarten class, she asked, “Why is Hearing so important?”
to which one very Bodhisattivic boy replied without hesistation:
…and, then, upon arriving at the summit?
ilg had Blissfully renounced all such Outer Worldly thoughts, ambitions, and aspirations
and relaxed like a Bear into hibernation
into the Spiritual Realm that outsiders know only as…
Durango, Colorado.
“Greetings Two-wheeled, Two-skied Master! We thank you again for introducing Asea Sacred Water to us (and highlighting the quality of Sunrider Herbs). Leanne is on race 2 of 2 tomorrow, two back to back half-marathons. She took 1st in her 35-39AG last week and hopes to do well in the next race tomorrow. She KNOWS […]
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of Turtle Island
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun –
With joyful interpenetration for all.”
– Gary Synder
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