Wednesday,
July 20th, 2016
Grinnell,
Iowa
His
Eyes
His
eye was fully open but the other was closed, and just as the closed eye-lid
began to open, the open eye began to move in a slow blink.
This
was pretty much how I viewed the full moon and its counterpart, the sun, as
these heavenly bodies presented themselves in the early morning sky. It was purely magical, and while I had the
moon before me in the westerly sky, the sun naturally arose behind me. I was being looked at by God, one eye at a
time.
This
dynamic occurred yesterday and repeated itself again today. Yet today, the sun began to be in a
relentless mode as the hours moved on.
Water in the air (humidity) was thick in suspension. It was taxing and dehydrating.
Relief
arrived merely with the visitation of
people. Rajasuya and Mandala came to
join me on Hwy. 6. Then Dan Hayes
appeared from the Iowa County Market Newspaper.
A fellow by the name of Rich, a local organic farmer, stopped out of
interest. I was also whisked away to
KGRN radio with Chris Johnson as the interviewer.
Back
on the road again, and a woman from nowhere delivered lemonade. A second one, Lisa, pulled over to hand out
some refreshments—ice water and fruit.
“I’ve
been following you on the internet. I
drove around knowing you were in town,” said Lisa. She is very much the big-hearted type of
person and it was a pleasure meeting her at the last step of the day’s walk.
These
were all lovely people whose paths I crossed today, and it alleviated the
physical strain felt initially.
What
really stuck in my mind were Dan’s questions. “What prompted you to do this
walk? Does it have anything to do with the current political situation? Isis and so forth?”
“Much
to do with it,” I said, and went on to explain that the message from our
scripture, the Bhagavad-gita, is much
about taking firm stands when gentleness is taken advantage of.
This
is a big topic in and of itself.
May
the Source be with you!
19
miles
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