Wind And Waves

Stevie and Alex.  They are wonderful to be around.  We took a morning and headed to Golden, to tube down Clear Creek.  So refreshing…and slightly scary!

SOCIALization

1. the process by which an individual learns to live in accordance with the expectations and standards of a group or society, acquiring its beliefs, habits, values, and accepted modes of behavior primarily through imitation, family interaction, and educational systems; the procedure by which society integrates the individual.

observation by Rumi

“If you are here unfaithfully with us,
you’re causing terrible damage.”

Another words, If we are unfaithful to true
self, we will extract a price from others. We will make promises
we cannot keep, build houses from flimsy stuff, conjure dreams
that devolve into nightmares, and other people will suffer — if
we are unfaithful to true self.

painting that hangs at the Noble (Nols Hotel) in Lander, Wyoming

largely because the experience was SOO much fun!  Lost in the swamp for what seemed like ages, bushwacking through willows,following Quami, our fearless leader of about 8 years old, who was communicating to his cousin, who was no where to be found and was with the group we were looking for, with loud wooping sounds, like bird cries.  It was like I had walked right back into childhood.

These summer mornings are delicious.  I’m loving the coolness of the am, I just want to drink them in.  I wake as early as I can to enjoy……especially because the days are SO hot!  This is reminding me of Mexico days….

Here’s my Dad!  We are on top of Guenella Pass, which goes from George Town to Grant.  They just finished paving it and it is Niceeeeeee!  Fun riding 🙂

Exploring some of the little roads, one of my very favorite things to do! Ironically I had camped in this very spot a few years ago.  Waking up to this view is …….not bad!

Awesome poem by Rumi:

Join yourself to friends
and know the joy of the soul.
Enter the neighborhood of ruin
with those who drink to the dregs.

Empty the glass of your desire
so that you won’t be disgraced.
Stop looking for something out there
and begin seeing within.

Open your arms if you want an embrace.
Break the earthen idols and release the radiance.
Why get involved with a hag like this world?
You know what it will cost.

And three pitiful meals a day
is all that weapons and violence  can earn.
At night when the Beloved comes
will you be nodding on opium?

If you close your mouth to food,
you can know a sweeter taste.
Our Host is no tyrant.  We gather in a circle.
Sit down with us beyond the wheel of time.

Here is the deal: give one life
and receive a hundred.
Stop growling like dogs,
and know the shepherd’s care.

You keep complaining about others
and all they owe you?
Well, forget about them;
just be in His presence.

When the earth is wide,
why are you asleep in a prison?
Think of nothing but the source of thought.
Feed the soul; let the body fast.

Avoid knotted ideas;
unite yourself in a higher world.
Limit your talk
for the sake of timeless communion.

Abandon life and the world,
and find the life of the world.
–Ghazal 2577 Version by Kabir Helminski

Quality time with Chuck, my good friend from High School!

And was experimenting with instagram…