Stories from the wilderness, yoga nidra, and other meditations on life
“Trees warp time, or rather create a variety of times: here dense and abrupt, there calm and sinuous .” John Fowles
Temagami Time is about our relationship with time.
This Yoga Nidra has you observe the rising and falling of awareness.
We navigated some rough waters, misjudged a jagged edge that left a scar on the bottom of our canoe, adding paint to the rainbow of others who had come before. And all the while we knew full well that we’d have to lead the canoe up these rapids again, at the end of day.
Red-winged blackbird is about journeys and solace.
I thought about the message an old high school friend recently sent to me. He’d been trail running through the woods, and found himself on a bed of feathers. In my imagination I saw hundreds of molting birds, shaking their soft wings. But no, he said, these weren’t feathers, it was cotton weed, which doesn’t, in my mind, make the scene any less beautiful.
My husband hitched rides all over the world when he was young. I’ve only dared it a few times, including a ride, on a heavy rainy day, up the sunshine coast, and once when we hitchhiked to our honeymoon.
Bend in the road is a story about a canoe trip down the Rideau river, hitchhiking and regrets. (See Links 33)
Two days after we moved in Mrs Sprout came through our always unlocked back door, strode up the 3 narrow steps into her old kitchen, searched the top of my new fridge for tickets to a concert at the NAC. She asked if I’d taken them, and questioned what I’d done.
This story travels along a wild coastline, where the scene changes constantly, yet seemingly repeats itself again and again. (See Links 13, 14)
Journey deep into a tunnel and rest on the shores of a moon lit beach. (Also see Yoga Nidra: Tunnel, for a longer version)
A story about my great grandmother, her broken hip and a pale yellow water pitcher.
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