The thing about all this is mindfulness. I am a driver; I drive miles a day, to & from, here to there, back again, mindlessly. Asleep at the wheel, auto-pilot, zoning, meditating, emptying.
But here, I am fully awake. Always alert, seeing things as they appear, reading landscape, learning geography, wishing for more geology, predicting road conditions, absorbing roadsigns, & always searching for those creatures more appropriate to place than this murder wagon rolling up & down these slopes.
This is a kind of prayer, this travel. Counting miles like prayer beads, changing devotions as elevation shifts. It says thank you, protect us, I'm sorry. But mostly it says I am alive, I am awake, I was mindfully here.
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