28 Ks Hath January

I will tell you that I am a lot tougher than I thought I was.
(Even tougher than when I become my formidable alter-ego Rambo Fighting Bitch & she kicks heads off).

See I haven't been very well lately due to my fasting (love/hate relationship with food) and my meditation (sheer exhaustion) so when my Lovely Friend Helen invited me to go hiking in "The Prom" Vic Aust. I thought "Pfft".

I do, however quite a bit love "The Prom", I have been craving some real-nature-night-air reality & I quite like Lovely Helen (& her Naughty Daughter Kate).

In light of my current change-everything phase I said "sho' thing"

She said 12km. She said 2.5 hours. She said easy.That's what they told her to say.

"Pfft"

I looked a little bit like this.



I felt a little bit like this.



But "The Prom" looks like this.



and this -



and even this -



So even if it was 28.8 kms and took oh, about 10 hrs, I had a beautiful-solitary-meaning-of-life kind of time, I now know I'm tough and I saw a snake.



I love snakes.

I was walking by my self (carrying my happy 15kg) on a gravelly-mountainy-feel-your-universal insignificance and conversely-complete-omnipotence kind of track in between Little Waterloo Bay & The Lighthouse Track and I see him slithered across the path. Everything is black because the Prom got a bit of a cleansing-by-fire last year (& is just the Phoenix you would imagine) and so this metre and a half long thing could be a stick "tra la la" (I say to myself) "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" (I say to The Prom)

Not stick, 'tis snake.

Highly unimpressed by my girly antics he cocks his head (I swear he grins) and slithers neatly away.

Ah, you know when there is a big spider in your room and after he's gone you can still feel him on you plus lots of other little spiders even tho they are not there? Yesssssssss.

Black trees black plants even some of the regrowth is black (tis black fella's land) so I was plunged into an experience much real-er than any silly spider.

Happy snakes coming out of the mountain-grain like I'd been sharing my time with Hunter.S.



My snake was not an enemy tho.
Signifying the rising of "Kundalini" /energy and "transmuting the poisons of the past", I couldn't have been a luckier witness.

Plus he helped me get my soul back, as did the glorious creature peeking out from the top of my page, but that 'tis another story for another day.

I thank the Universe for : It's incomprehensible glory and perfection, books, words, rocks, rainbows, my brother(s), vanilla ice-cream, giving my soul back and The Parker-Greens who are just my very favourites.

Word For The Day - Kundalini - n. (Hinduism) - Energy that lies dormant at the base of the spine until it is activated, as by the practice of yoga, and channeled upward through the chakras in the process of spiritual perfection.