Jim's Trek V, my exercise journey now on my Schwinn 170 from Tampa to parts unknown...
Showing posts with label The Artist's Way. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Artist's Way. Show all posts

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Day 136 – (AD 359) – Jim's Trek Part II – The Sequel – 21.6 Miles – Bridgeport, Texas on My Schwinn 150

Good day,

This morning I cycled another 21.6 miles on my Schwinn 150. My total is up to 7,176.3 miles.


I made it to the City of Bridgeport, Texas, population somewhere about 6,000. I am located on US-380 E and I am now only about 48 miles from my 33rd Interlake address goal point.

I learned a new ology word this morning “Hymnology”. It is the study of religious song or the hymn with focus on choral and congregational song. There appears to be a distinction between this type of music and contemporary Christian music. And I just recollect the Deacons blaming the studs in our jeans for scratching the pews at Grace Memorial. Hey, I am always learning.

In the past while I have been researching the thoughts and details about shape shifting. (First of all I am NOT, not do I beleive that I am or have the ability to shift shapes.) I have discovered that I think that my Shapeshifter may be a Mestaclocan. In an early Mayan text, the Shapeshifter, or Mestaclocan, has the ability to change his or her appearance and to manipulate the minds of animals. I notice that shape shifting can also include fantastical beings as well as humans. I began this search and research about a year ago with the possible thought of maybe writing something.

Julia Cameron in her book, The Artist's Way discusses and highlights synchronicity. From Wikipedia, the first line begins "Synchronicity is the experience of two or more events as meaningfully related, whereas they are unlikely to be causally related". It is defined as "the simultaneous occurrence of events that appear significantly related but have no discernible causal connection."

Well this morning while watching The 4400, Season 3 Episode 3, Being Tom Baldwin, I am intriqued that one of the characters has the ability to take on the forms of other members of the story. Okay, I am a tiny bit freaked out. Say what?

This appears to provide me some indication that three non-related events, my research, my reading and studying Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way and The 4400 episode, of which I was just watching in the sequence of viewing events, that there is some deal with synchronicity. I am a bit dumbfounded, and I realize that I am only along for the ride. No pun intended.

Enjoy and be healthy,

Jim

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Day 75 - (AD 298) - Jim's Trek Part II - The Sequel - 21.7 Miles - In The Desert on My Schwinn 150

Good Day,

My cycling this morning, my Schwinn 150, 21.7 miles. And today I am located and headed in a northeast direction on Box Canyon Road. From the Google satellite image it appears that this portion of Box Canyon Road is a dried up river bed. The next intersection and cross road is Power Line Road which is about six-and-a-half miles away.


I have now cycled, on my return trip back from Seattle to Tampa, 27.2% of my total Trek of cycled miles of 5,846.6. It looks like I will reach my 32nd goal and the 6,000 mile mark at about the same time.

And I was thinking that I was getting into a rut this morning as I sat down at my notebook to write to my Jim's Trek blog. I started surfing and thinking of something interesting that I may include when I noticed an article in The Guardian. It was Oliver Burkeman's October 4 article, Rise and shine: the daily routines of history's most creative minds.

Now I do not expect in anyway to go down in history as one of those minds, or in anyway paired up with the minds of the individuals mentioned in Burkeman's article...but, I can breathe.  I can look at my morning and daily routine as not necessarily a rut but a part of my journey.  And now I understand why I have adamantly focused myself of Julia Cameron's book The Artist's Way, A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity.

I wonder if the minds of the past Franklin, Rand, Beethoven, Proust, O'Keefe, et al would have used a notebook, an iPad, a Schwinn 150?

And I had one hell of a time today trying to post my images...and so I am a wee bit late posting today.

Be healthy and enjoy,

Jim