I walked up the Mountain and I walked down the mountain.
I stayed at a place that was privy to the best sunset viewing on Lion’s Bay.
I realized that as I walked up the mountain and down the mountain that the locals, no matter whom I met, were in deference to the Mountain and to its view, of the bay below.
Tis humility that strikes me fine.”as they say in NFLD, “tis some shocken good when a bye can see the land..and the sea,tis better than al his pride”
I took in things from a peripheral point of view, and I came to understand(at least in part) why someone, certainly of an ART bent, of a PHILOSOPHICAL bent.,
even a PRINCIPLED bent , would choose to live in surroundings, like the ones I am living in right now.
Up close and personal are the surroundings of THIS MOUNTAIN, the biodiversity helps one to realize that we are just PART OF THE WHOLE. It summons an awareness of the cyclic changes of LIFE/DEATH/and that VAST FOREVER and on an more earthly footing it addresses those present issues that our baby boomer swelling population faces daily.
The only comfort that I may give myself in downsizing …is a quote from Francis of Assisi, who said “You may only take what you have given.”
The act of downsizing is something that I have been privy to at 160 Sunset Drive.
To assemble stuff for salvation army, goodwill organizations and to simply come to terms with what St. Francis of Assisi cited. But before the family of 160 Sunset Drive moves on, they will know that the gift that they have recieved is one that their neighbours still say.” We have never not been grateful for this mountain, and the view. Every day we feel gratitiude.
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