It was spring break at school and I had a busy week in a good way.
I had decided that the area where the above ground temporary pool was located, I would turn into a garden. I no longer had the need for the pool, but it was fenced and leveled and would take considerable effort to revert it to grass.
I dug up the area as the ground and sand were packed from the weight of the pool. I raked rock out that was bordering the pool area and had purchased mushroom soil to enrich the ground.
The area was about 16 x 16 so I added pavers to have walkways and a space for my yardcart.
I used my week off to dig up the space which was no easy task.
I also got a good walk in every day. On one of those I took the Katellin trailhead to the Appalachian Trail. It was my first on this type of trail. I had been on walking paths before. The climb up was steep and rocky, but not more than moderate and nothing beyond basic skill.
At the top was a pathway where transmission lines crossed the trail. Several people online had suggested following the lines to the edge of the mountain, which I did and it was well worth it.
Despite it being the 2nd week of April, there were light flurries at the top. The sky was not crystal clear, but clear enough to look out over the valley.
It is quite an experience to walk to the edge of a mountain and look out. Everything that seems so developed and over developed that we see on a day to day basis is easy to overlook from up above.
It is quiet, peaceful. You are alone, but feel like you are a part of something indescribably bigger and better than what you feel day to day. It isn’t about before or after.
It is a moment. It is awe.
These moments occur when we allow them to because we are open to them and accepting of them.
I learned from when I began my journey 36 weeks earlier that I had made myself better prepared for these moments through intentional efforts to be more aware of my self, my feelings, my concerns, my interests, and my values.
As noted I was making good progress and this was a way of seeing that progress in how I was living my life. I was finding contentment by doing the things I valued and savored doing them for the simple sake of doing them.
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