The Unpaved Earth...

So psyched for spring and getting outside again as melting snows give way to open ground and bluer skies- shared spaces again with snakes, wildflowers, falcons, climbing partners and perfectly fractured granite... meditative foot placements over ridge-spines crossing the Divide...

Here are a quick few rambling words from an article I finished today for a California mag...

©Bennett Barthelemy

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“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”

― Farley Mowat

Ultimately there is a flash point – from convergence of stuffed emotion and stagnant physicality. Hopefully we are awake for it lest we combust and burn the house down. Much better to be outside and inspired by the sacred geometry, as conduit between unpaved earth and open sky, when the flash point happens and revel in the divergent expulsion of sweat, pain and built up angst.

Sojourns into wilderness are my chosen prescription and applied medicine – my natural Silvadene, the aloe therapy for the contact burns of urbanization and the collective shared suffering of humanity from being plugged in. Wilderness forces a conscious unplugging, to redirect and reconnect currents of the eclipsed flow that still unconsciously dances to the rhythms of moon and sun...