Dancing Rocks
 
...Ascending towards the mountain crest, heart pounding, breathing short and hard I stop to rest...15 minutes it takes to regain some sense of nonexaustion...begining to climb again transending some 15 feet..steeply upwards...until breathing and heart pounding return to a painful pace...
 
just 15 feet...
 
and another rest...
 
and another...
 
Slowly stepping onto the final rocky ascent that leads to the crest of the ever empowering mountain top exuberant energy returns.
 
As standing once again atop this small pine filled crescent , back straight and powerful observing the somewhat flatened out path, hard beaten with countless footsteps before, it beckons you with an explorers curiosity...
 
you begin.
 
A view that extends to the limits of sight, now hidden behind the growth of small pines, awaits at the end of this energetic trail.
 
Travel begins at a normal gait, traveling slightly upwards, along the smoothen ground that runs through the shadows of the small earthen cented trees.
 
With a frosty tempered breeze blowing across your forhead and the warm basking sun shining down the trail warming your back and shoulders, serenity becomes aparent . A perfect day and time for what lies ahead in the middle of the crescent trail.
 
As the path narrows small granet stones embedded deeply in the mountain top begin to surface.
 
More and more the small granet monuments begin to appear as the trail narrows still.
 
The foot path, now only a step wide is surrounded by the granet structures.
 
A beckoning calls. Take the stepping stones!! Right, then left, right, and left again your feet leave the designated path to Dance across the Granet in a magical rhythm. The narrow trail below in the center of your sideward steps is wating for your decending crash!! But it never comes, the Dancing Rocks take your steps with ease and guide you to an ever quickening pace. In a magical rhythm from stone to stone, your feet seemingly glide like a leaf on the breeze. Each step has it's own presice landing along the tops of the awaiting granet structures taking you down the now magical trail . Finally the stones began to spread further and further apart making your steps more and more difficult to reach . As the the trail begans to open up and widen it becomes your only recourse to travel it once again. Not wanting to damage any newley emerging growth outside the warn path you return to it's true sight.
 
An experience like no other, as your steps glided seamlessly between each stone pedistal. The life force from deep within the mountain beaming up through the natural pyramid structure to the pinnacle surrounds you and penetrats into your lifes essence as an unseen rejuvinating force. A bonding of trust between Man and Mountain apparent as your feet glide from stone to stone, dancing you forward across the mountain peak in a musical rhythm, never a step amiss.
 
As you travel to the end of the mountain top path your spirit dances with a rejuvination only experienced from such natural energy. But still, a beautiful vista awaits to be taken into your new life, a wonderfull begining and an exceptional ending all at once.
 
The steep descent hurts your calf and shin muscles all in the same step as you try not to travel too fast down the loose gravel and dirt path from the pinnacle. The path changes angle gradually so as to ease the stepping somewhat to a more natural downward gait. Having left behind the warming sun for a shaded path from more mature trees, a comfortable cooling takes effect and makes for a pleasant hike back to the car.
 
A nice day indeed...
 
As alway, Tread Lightly...
 

 
 
 
 
  The day of the Earthworm
 
 
...As the worm crawls from it's suffocating terra surroundings seeking relief from the drenching rain that has finally subsided on this summers' day... continuing onto the warmth of the sun soaked concrete , once again, able to absorb fresh oxygen.
 
footsteps approach...
 
the worm lays helplessly in their direct path...
 
The foot passenger, not aware of the life so slowly crawling into his path, continues on an imenent collision course with the hardened sole of protection pounding the pavement.
 
When suddenly... a small unexplainable event appears to happen as a decending foot takes an averted path for an unknown reason. The owner of said foot is surprized by the unconcious effort of the foot which makes a short studder step so as to avoid the unseen object. Unable to descern why, the foot passenger looks back to see what was just avoided...
 
and sees only an earthworm sunning on the concrete.
 
The passenger quickly questions the foot action that has just occured. Which one of lifes influences froze his foot in mid air above the small earthworm and induced it to continue ever so slightly forward as to avoid this creature of the Earth? Was it a matter of some kind of unfamiliar fate?
 
Whos' Life Authority issued the command that created the resulting action...the foot passengers or that of the earthworm?
 
Most likely the one that would be most effected by the impending step.
 
The fate of the worm as not to be terminated at that moment of time?
 
-or-
 
The foot passenger unconciously sensing an action that was about to terminate a small form of life?
 
...an unanswered question with a possible conclusion residing in eternal time or perhaps in your lifes continued search of wondering thought.
 
The foot passenger procedes calmy on his journey into the public library saving the account in his minds ever expanding volume of unanswered questions from his lifes journey... able to return to it when in a peaceful time of resting feels the need to recall the unusual moment in time...
 
As always, Tread Lightly...