Tag: meaning of life
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Step-wise
I first stepped foot on the AT over half of a century ago. Even as a child it seemed unfathomable that one could walk all that way. But I was closer to the middle, standing on the path next to the parking lot where a laden station wagon waited, ticking and cooling, when my parents…
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If You Let It
Something went on in the sky yesterday. We can explain it, predict it, model it, anticipate it. But seeing it—experiencing it? That goes, not beyond, but without measure. Time almost stands still in a total eclipse, it seems. The slow progression can just be discerned. Then that moment of total triumph blares its horn in…
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Wondering
Time teasingly beckons, but have you lived? Have you found the dew on the lotus flower? Kissed a chubby cheek? Have you found some meaning in the sunrise? A connection to the bird of prey? Have you breathed deeply, stepped softly and found differences between conscience, ego and unconditional acceptance? Did the four leaf clover…