…walking is an amazing activity..I just got back from a walk in the rain and I started thinking about what it means to be loyal and faithful on this day of copious consumption..it occurred to me that we are all loyal and faithful to something.

The park I walk in is on Beacon Hill and the view to the north is of the downtown skyline. It looks very impressive and somewhat ominous with all the severe rectangle shapes reaching. One of my Waldorf teacher friends and I were talking about mineralogy one time and she was giving me her take on it...

Remember when you were a child and there was a rhyme that went like this, here is church here is the steeple, open the door and here are the people. Well it sort of looks like that, but imagine that if you turn your intertwined hands to the ground, here are the minerals of the earth and when you turn your hands up, here is what we have extracted from below to manifest on top…

That which is represented, as in the downtown skyline, represents those minerals and this is often the place of commerce, business, representing what has been made manifest from what was extracted from below the surface. It is pretty tripy when you think about it for a while.

So back to the original thought of loyalty and faithfulness…and the question is what are you loyal and faithful too in all areas of your life? That question alone can be a driving force behind any aspect, any question, any activity...

Here's to taking a walk in the rain...

Stay tuned and enjoy!