Tuesday, May 31st,
2016
Sterling Heights,
Michigan
Doing What Needs
Doing
The land is flat in
Michigan, much as it is in Ohio. Somehow
it's conducive to my skeletal structure.
So walking has been good. Even
though I'm on my two day break from marathon trekking, I'm still picking hours
to be out of doors for reading, writing, and some administrative phone
calls. It's about giving me a
balance. I've been working in the back
yard of the residence of Vivasvan, my support person of last fall's walk through
the northeast of the US. But I see this
more sedentary service as a kind of a continuity to walking, primarily because
I'm doing it outside.
The little bit of
walking that I am covering in Michigan allows me to connect with the
birds. They seem to be saying, "You
got some food for me?" Mosquitoes
are also making a visit. The evening
hours were spent with members of Harmony Collective in Ypsilanti, a facility
run by Deva Madhava, who is a jewel of a Vaishnava. What a community, family feel this place is.
Amongst the guests
were Sean, who takes just-released prisoners and integrates them into society
again. There was also Father Joseph, who
leads a parish in the Greek Orthodox Church. The latter is a vegetarian and
chants on mala (beads) every
day. He chants the Hare Krishna mantra.
He carries himself well in the pastoral mode.
Attendees had a few
moments to share in the great words of Sri Krishna. Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 8, Text 9, wherein we
found a great definition of the Divine, and a great directive:
'One
should meditate upon the Supreme Person as the one who knows everything, as He
who is the oldest, who is the controller, who is smaller than the smallest, who
is the maintainer of everything, who is beyond all material conception, who is
inconceivable, and who is always a person. He is luminous like the sun, and He
is transcendental, beyond this material nature.'
May the Source be
with you!
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