This is where I chose to do hill training today. I used google's distance measurement tool and tried to find a 400 metre hill a little closer to home and then proceeded to walk up and down it six times -one orange mark to the other. I stayed off the sidewalk and walked on the grass, past the tennis courts where people wondered who the crazy lady was, past the ever expanding cemetery where no one wondered anything, and up to the corner of the dog park where everyone was too busy running around and barking to care about me at all.
Concrete sidewalks are the worst things for your bones. I usually walk that path past the baseball diamond and on into Confederation Park which is off the lower left corner of this photo. It has nice asphalt walking paths which are much easier on the body and I don't have to watch for or listen to traffic. The little pink mark is a set of trees that I enjoy. There are many, many trees in the park ahead but these ones always catch my eye and I've always meant to photograph or draw them.
Today I listened to a Tapestry podcast with Laurence Freeman on Christian Meditation. I liked the part where he quotes John Cassian saying that the two dangers of the spiritual life are "the lethal sleep" and "the pernicious peace" referring to the temptation to create a foggy alternate reality or escape - the three scotch feeling I believe he called it - and to only be peaceful when separated from the world and its needs. Those who do not use their practices as escape will experience conversion and transformation that keeps them doing real inner and outer work. A good warning.
