Warm enough to walk at the lake

 

The little waterfall is under water, because it rained most of yesterday.

Lake Tomahawk was at a high water level, and full of sediment from yesterday's rains.

Me and my shadow didn't get to sit on our favorite bench, because the sun doesn't hit the seat, just the back...so it was really damp still.

I think I saw 4-5 families fishing last Saturday when I walked around the lake. Dads must have purchased new rods or reels for Christmas

Today's quote:

In the midst of the 21st century, many people, in spite of all
their worldly wisdom, are still laden with medieval attitudes to
illness.....as if sickness is some kind of failing.  Physical dysfunction,
frailty or weakness is often experienced as if it were something to be
ashamed of, or guilty about - as if we have failed to meet some target
or some kind of socially acceptable ideal of good health.  We often
feel a need to make excuses for our suffering.  As if we needed to make
excuses for being vulnerably co-dependent dancings that we are!  We
try to identify a concrete cause for our condition, not only to help us
find a resolution to it but because the only alternative to identifying
a clear 'outer' cause seems to be that we ourselves, our behavior or our
lifestyles, are the cause.  It's our bad 'karma' or perhaps our bad diet or
lack of exercise or excessive stress, and illness is punishment or
retribution for our dissolute living!

[Could it be that] illness has invited us into a period of intensified
enquiry, contemplation and spiritual ripening...

An immeasurable expanse of experience and experiences surrounds
 and suffuses [us], a weaving together of uncountable situations and
circumstances - a seamless whole in the act of constant transformation
 - this dancing of [our] current knowing/beingness.

All complex, inter-dependent life dancings, in other words, all living
beings, have come about through the collaboration and balancing of
uncountable factors.  As the relationship between these factors
 changes, the system functions differently.  If the relationships change
 sufficiently, the functioning will change into something else 
all together and the original functioning will no longer be there.  
These constantly changing relationships are a basic nature of all 
interdependent arisings.  There is no shame in this.

Birth without death would not be life.  This continuous streaming of
birthing/dying is life in action.

Tarchin Hearn

Excerpts from: 
The Dharma of Illness and The Medicine of Wonderment

"Tarchin has a unique view of the inter-dependency of all life, 
which he calls the "Holoverse", borrowing from the idea of
the Hologram.  The full article is worth the read, especially
for those dealing with a chronic health condition.  It really
helped me change my perspective on my own health issues."

From a fellow blogger (I'm sorry, I am not sure which one.)