Imprisoned

Today is the last day at the cabin.  I didn't think I would blog... but ya just never know, eh?  I sat here in (Divine) contemplation, while I ate a particularly delicious yam.  Brad, the incredible, admirable, amazing owner of the cabins (oh ya, everyone should visit here, http://www.mountpilchuck.com ) is a ROCK HOUND. 

No, he does not listen to AC-DC and Ozzy, or at least I haven't noticed that he does.  He collects rocks:  Big rocks, that weigh more than I do, and tiny rocks... everything in between...  rocks whose layers and shapes and colors would blow your mind.  He glazes them with something shiny, a verathane of sorts, and has them everywhere amongst the antiques.  If there's a surface, it needs rocks.  Outdoors, there are rocks.  It's absolutely stunning, really.

So here on the table, where I was admiring the river and appreciating the yam, one of the rocks caught my eye for the first time.  It's only a handful, but it is a rock encased in rock.  It's like a stone that is inside a peeling, with a third of that exterior stripped away.  The outside is dark, like deep, rich earth... and the inside is light like perfect Indian skin (meant with shear adoration).  I was thinking about this rock.  At one time it was a prisoner of its outer shell.  Aren't we all?  And, although not entirely free, it has a great head start on peeling away.

There really couldn't be a better analogy for my "adventure".  I had some parts of my outer layer to peel, some work to do, to strip off just a little bit more of what imprisons me.  And, nowhere near fully exposed, I still feel shiny and ready to re-emerge into the world.  After a few months of crazy, hopeless meditation attempts, today, things are back to the glowing, zealous, unconditional love of times past.  I can breathe again.  I can stop thinking again.  I can touch base with the me that hides deep within, with my God, with the Eternal Oneness that is a collective of us all.

I wish nothing less and everything more to all of you.  Break free!  Namaste :  )