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Recieved: 2001/04/03 05:47
Subject: [K-list] Rambly Contemplation/Vacation, was Re: Reality/Imposed Silence
From: Murrkis
On 2001/04/03 05:47, Murrkis posted thus to the K-list:
Oops, sent this one privately to Percyval instead of the public realm.
>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 07:52:08 -0400
>To:"percyval" <percyvalATnospamrcn.com>
>From:murrkisATnospammindspring.com (Nina and John Murrell-Kisner)
>Subject:Rambly Contemplation/Vacation, was Re: Reality/Imposed Silence
>
>Ah, Perk,
>
>Seems so simple.
>
>Time for a vacation, but I must wait until August. This year we're flying
>back to the northwest USA to visit friends in Seattle (old home base),
>rent a VW bus, and go loiter in central Washington.
>
>Central Washington... right along the Okanogan River valley. Not what many
>people would consider a vacation get-away-hotspot. :) But sublime
>nonetheless.
>
>Something about what that landscape does to one's sense of scale... like
>you could reach out and touch something, but then you realize it is many
>many miles away... and that "moss" you're looking at is National Forest.
>
>Really puts your tiny-ness in perspective, "you little moss-sprout in the
>forest of the universe".
>
>Not to mention the flavor of the air... or perhaps I am comparing it in my
>memory to the airflavor of Seattle. (Heh, this is NOT to say that
>Asheville has better air quality than Seattle. It certainly doesn't...
>surprised? Some say that at times New York seems to have better air. Thank
>you, car commuters and Tennessee River Valley Authority...)
>
>There is one spot in particular that I want to touch base with... a ridge
>along the Canadian border looking southwest across the foothills of the
>Rocky Mountains, the eastern band of the Cascade Range, and down into the
>valley holding Lake Osoyoos... at sunset the sun moves down over the
>Cascades, clouds are arrested by air currents and sheer northwards along
>the river valley, the ground becomes alive, all sense of scale is lost,
>sense of movement expands beyond blood pumping in veins to include the
>relationship of earth ground to receding sun. Intimate expansive
>connection.
>
>The first time I saw this place, I had hiked up from a lower bench,
>rounded a knoll, and, upon raising my eyes, felt the floor of my body drop
>out of me... all the air sucked clean from my lungs.
>
>Makes me wonder about Ley Lines... and dowsing. I wonder what a dowsing of
>this spot would reveal.
>
>Last night I came across a website that housed information on the dowsing
>of Seattle. The dowsing of -an entire city-. This is part of their public
>art agenda. Apparently, public works to highlight significant energy
>centers are being planned. The map is amazing, but cryptic. Sure would
>like to know how the lines were determined. Of course, I had to see if any
>lines ran through my old neighborhood. ;) Interesting, but it seemed that
>many of the major parks are located on nodes for these lines...
>coincidence?
>
>The word vacation is quite interesting... the state of having vacated.
>What is vacated?
>
>got a lump where things should be open, but I sure am working on it,
>
>cheer, Percyval, and thanks. :)
>
>>yes... please Nina all over us... abundantly!
>>
>>lovingly,
>>
>>percyval
>
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