04-02-2012, 12:01 AM
And more, since Cedar pays tribute to her family here. Thanks to mine as well...my wife and two daughters, who have taught me more about "mysticism" in my interaction with them than all the books I've ever read on the subject.
I'm on the trail with my family out in the woods...an utterly beautiful day. The flora around my literally gushing with life after spring storms yesterday rattled our little part of the world. My youngest is burbling away as we hike, narrating the unseen details of our adventure. We make it up the steepest part of the climb to the overlook..take our time soaking up the sight there, and then head back down the trail. Now the "punchline" of her adventure, she narrates, "I knew it all along, y'all. Yes! I knew it the whole time!! The pirates didn't know, that their SHIP was the treasure they were looking for all along!! They didn't find it because they were on it the whole time!! It was right under there....under their feet! And they didn't even KNOW it!"
And that punchline, my dear warriors, is the same punchline that Dorothy and her three friends arrived at once they exposed the "wizard" they'd been seeking. That's the joy of it, though...the seeking...the adventuring...to find what we've been looking for has been here all along.
I'm on the trail with my family out in the woods...an utterly beautiful day. The flora around my literally gushing with life after spring storms yesterday rattled our little part of the world. My youngest is burbling away as we hike, narrating the unseen details of our adventure. We make it up the steepest part of the climb to the overlook..take our time soaking up the sight there, and then head back down the trail. Now the "punchline" of her adventure, she narrates, "I knew it all along, y'all. Yes! I knew it the whole time!! The pirates didn't know, that their SHIP was the treasure they were looking for all along!! They didn't find it because they were on it the whole time!! It was right under there....under their feet! And they didn't even KNOW it!"
And that punchline, my dear warriors, is the same punchline that Dorothy and her three friends arrived at once they exposed the "wizard" they'd been seeking. That's the joy of it, though...the seeking...the adventuring...to find what we've been looking for has been here all along.