I’m amused that some, on referring to this Oregon trip, call it \u201cvacation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vacation from what? I ask, except the regular routine, the distractions, the pesky nuisances, to-do lists of the mind.<\/p>\n
And I suppose, from all these things, it is a vacation. At least I hope to have vacated most of them.<\/p>\n
But the mind is not vacant at all. Maybe I sit longer in the morning, reading, musing, climbing, spelunking, all four limbs engaged among the cranium\u2019s cracks and crannies. Ever moving from one to another, getting almost stuck, then seeing another to explore. Sometimes it’s sheer, like Jerusalem\u2019s wailing wall. I come across fragments of old prayers wedged in the cracks; I make new ones and wedge them in too.<\/p>\n
I keep moving. Something else attracts, a distant idea. Will it mean a leap? Or do I take the safe route, longer, going back where I’ve been and coming at it another way?<\/p>\n
But wait, there’s a rope. Can I trust it? Can I swing? Is it affixed to anything up there?<\/p>\n
Do I go, or let go?<\/p>\n
Is what I do now dependent on what I’ve done before? Or am I a continual blank slate?<\/p>\n
If this is a vacation, is it from what?<\/p>\n
And to what?<\/p>\n
This is what we’re here to find out.<\/p>\n
Meantime, fellow travelers, keep climbing, keep spelunking,<\/p>\n
And don’t fret, even the pitfalls are only in the mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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