...fire...........!!!
Yesterday, running at dawn as part of my training routine, I had to laugh at the signs I found at the entrance to the academy. Later today, there was no laughter, as I drove away from Austin and toward where I will be for the weekend.
With the deep thanks that was surging through my soul for the week just past (which continues to grow even as it's about bedtime where I'm staying the night), I was stunned at what I saw, just on the edge of the Bastrop fire SE of Austin on Route 71...enormous in acres...1500 homes lost...earth scorched beyond what one can imagine.
It is so tinder dry, that anything and everything needs to keep people reminded that this is a dangerous season. Cattle are being shipped out to market early. I saw some cattel today that looked like they were only nibbling on dust...nothing growing. Leaves are dropping from trees...and it's not even fall yet down here. The whole place seems to be a tinderbox ready to blow.......so, beware...lest ye be smacked.
This small, intense, life-altering conference I had the immense privilege of attending this past week...which will be guiding me in our own work and the mentoring and consulting with others...had us hoping, planning, thinking forward. I'm thinking ideas I've never thought before...exhilerating to the max.
But...what if you lived at this address?
...and came home to this
...and this
and this...........?
What would be your thoughts about your future then? What would you want it to be? What would it need to be? Those are important questions to ponder, whether your house burns down...or not. It is some of what I've been thinking as I plan forward in all 8 dimensions of my/our life...very grateful for the long drive from there to here today to ponder deep into this olde soul.
I will not forget what I've experienced, heard and seen...this week. I dare not take any of it for granted. What I do long for is the ignited fire in my soul to burn bright...no matter what takes place in the future. Crazy to think that way? Maybe. But...I'm willing to take the risk.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
it goes on."
.......Robert Frost.......
...and came home to this
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