As The Crow Flies

Osprey Atmos 35

I finally left the Washington cabin and am making my way to the BC cabin.

I should be in my cabin in BC;  I should be trying to sell it,  but instead, I’m hanging out in my Washington cabin listening to Colman Barks reading his interpretation of Rumi poems and enjoying the spring.     

It’s warmer now, everything is green, the wild flowers are blooming, and it’s hard to leave.

I spent a little bit of time improving a cave and thinking about moving into it.   I can sit up in it and lie down it it.     It has a great  southwesterly view so it should get good sun.

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I hiked with this fellow for a while in 2007.  He is the only person I have met, besides me, that can go from sleep to trail in under 4 minutes.    He should have lots of good trail tested advice to offer.

He e-mailed me saying that hiking season has begun.   If I’m not hiking, I really would like it if no one else would.

Although…it’s not too late to order some new gear and hit a trail.    Heck it’s not even too late to start the PCT again.

I have fallen to a human disease.  That’s the down side to hermit life–you can end up with an immune system of an extraterrestrial.

I have been sleeping for 9 days now.   I made it home to my cabin, but after a week of laying there in the cold, I came to town and got a room for a couple of  days.   Tomorrow I resume cabin life.

This was an odd winter.   Usually I reel for awhile and then I settle into stillness.   This winter I kept reeling.  After awhile I just excepted my thoughts as something I need to look at and deal with.   Everyday I wrote about what I had discovered in my reeling and I started to remember big events in my life that I had forgotten.

It seemed like a waste of a winter, just reliving the past,  but I feel like I have grown from the experience.   That’s the thing about not having any distractions like movies or Internet, you have to deal with you.

So what I would do is go back to the past, in my mind, and fix stuff.   And If I couldn’t figure out a way to fix it in the past, I would think about ways that I could fix things now.

Because I feel strongly that  if you are going to hole away in cabin all by yourself for 6 months, you have to have rules, these were the things I made myself do everyday:

• Yoga
• Meditation
• Walking or spending at least 30 minutes a day outside
• Bathe
• Brush teeth
• Write
• Refrain from eating from after noon to dawn the following day
• Chores (chopping wood, melting snow, etc.)
• Clean my cabin

For inspiration I had:

• Autobiography of a Yogi
• The Peace Pilgrim–in her own words
• Destiny of Souls and Journey of Souls
• an audio-book called, “50 Spiritual Classics”

Often I listened to music that I had stored on my computer.   Sometimes I would pick out 3 songs and listen to them over and over.  Eventually I would come to believe that they were the most beautiful songs ever written.   Then one day I would change what three songs I was listening to.   I felt they helped me to think.

Somehow, that would fill my day….that and a lot of games of Spider Solitaire…because it also helped me to think.

So a great winter…one I hope I don’t need to repeat but still a great winter.

Thanks to a 6.89 dress from Salvation Army, a set of fake pearls, and a package of razors, I think I pulled off the wedding thing.

After months of peace and solitude, all the wedding  activities made my brain buzz; glad it’s just a one time thing.

Now to resume my previous scheduled serenity……

Hey from town.   I spent half a day digging my truck out of the snow and trying to unfreeze the lock on my gate but I have a wedding to go to so out I must go.

What a great winter it has been.   Not having a phone and Internet was a good move for my growth.

Not having the spring running was so eaisily solved by melting the snow that was right outside my door.  Once you give up wanting things a certain way, it’s amazing how easy life is.

I had plenty of heat thanks to a load of tamarack rounds I had dropped off right outside of my cabin at the 11th hour.

I wasn’t really worried..

Hey from town.

I have some wood.

I have some water.

I have some food.

It’s snowing.

It’s time to go  to my cabin and not come out again to spring.

I have been actively embracing the Buddhist phrase, “Only by doing nothing can we ever hope to accomplish all that needs to be done.”

I have no wood in.  I have no water stock piled even though the spring doesn’t appear to be running and the guy who usually gets it running is dead.    It should be an interesting winter.

I do, however have enough oatmeal, nuts, raisins, brown sugar, soy protein powder and some various supplements to last me all winter.

I don’t eat from after noon to 6am the following day.   Most days I have a large bowl of super oats in the morning and then nothing again until the following morning.   I makes me feel buzzy, full of energy, and a little high.

I do yoga and  some mediation everyday.

Not getting the phone, Internet and Netflicks  turned on has been a good move.  I highly recommend turning off and tuning in.

I’ve been pulled out of my sweet cabin life and into a house sitting stint for my sister.      Her house looks exactly like a happy Sim with the wealth aspiration.    If you have never played the Sims game before, let me tell you, the Sims with the wealth aspirations are the easiest Sims to make happy—all they need in life is to make or spend money.