Making Mountain Meditations

 You know we might be starting over and that's just fine I wanted to uh talk about a few things and my daily rant and ramble and uh today I

was working on this thing called Mountain meditations and so it struck me well you know because I got really into it and you know it was taking quite a bit of time and so why am I doing all this well I'm doing it because it's it's a hobby it's fun and it's something I can do that gets me busy and gets me kind of uh concentrating on something and uh trying to get better at it so to speak so hereI am trying to get better at aiming there you go is a sweet baby boy so Zeke is just he's a character boy he he can cry like a banshee and nothing wrong with him but I go down the whole list is it food is it water do you need to go out and sometimes it's just plain affection as Tess would always say he's a lap dog so he is on my lap but um he had me up at 3:00 last night in the morning and uh ultimately I decided he must want to go out and sure enough he did so that took care of that anyway I spent how you know I just decided I'mgoing to do mountain meditations essentially which is to go to waterfalls and just record the waterfall now I've taken I don't know hundreds of hikes I've walked probably thousands of miles I have probably spent less than 15 minutes overall sitting and listening to a waterfall just sitting there kind of meditating watching a waterfall and you know so now at this ripe old age I'm thinking this is what I want to do I don't want to just get there say oh that's great turn around come back oh my God Chevy Chase at the edgeof the Grand Canyon yeah great okay let's go um I want to take time to enjoy it and even though when I'm recording that is that that's the irony that in itself is not all that enjoyable or relaxing because there's a lot of extraneous noises the waterfall doesn't belong to me it belongs to the general public and it's great to see people coming out to enjoy it and families and people with kids with dogs and everything else but it's a lot of noise that doesn't lend itself to uh the concept of meditation so I went out torain not rainbow Rainbow Falls is one of the big ones I want to do this is looking glass Falls it's right up the road maybe 10 miles or less in bravard right off at 276 and uh so in other words it's close and so I drive out there and I bring Zeke with me and we set up our camera and we get a good you know a good focus on the waterfall itself and it was it was great great um and so I started recording but then as I say people come by and you know even one or two said hey what's go you know what are you doing what's goingon so they make friendly conversation which is great they want to pet Zeke that's fantastic that's great so that's part of this whole thing is to realize part of this whole experience is for me to just enjoy myself and spend my time in some level of uh semi-productive and you know going with this concept I've had for quite a while the day may come when I can't do it so what I take for granted now I want to capture so for myself if I want to go back and look at it and think about it and hey how wasthat experience whatever I'll have it you know on film and for people who don't live here or live here but don't go there uh it could be a unique experience and like everything else I'm doing mine is very very very um amateur uh I'm using my iPhone and my little tripod that I just got from Amazon and I go out there and I video then like I said to get 10 minutes to get 10 solid minutes of a waterfall with the waterfall sound is very very difficult I won't even just I won't say just not easy it's almost impossiblebecause there's always something going on now especially on a well weekend day uh a nice sunny day when other people are visiting but maybe I'll go out there at 6 o00 in the morning I don't know but anyway what I'm saying is the whole project is probably taking four or five hours and it's it's one of the blessings I have because I don't have to go to work I don't have to make money with it I don't have any real pressure at all except the pressure I put on myself to do it and you and making your life moreenjoyable so that mine can be too but uh yeah I take Zeke with me and he gets bored too that's the other irony might as well say it here I've got friends that I can go hiking with and I truly like every other video I truly appreciate my friendships and enjoy going hiking but if I were to go to hike with anybody then it's really pretty much an out and back we want to go we want to get there we want to see what what there is to see then turn around and come back and that's fine that's great that's why I'm breaking the moldhere that's why I'm doing this I want to get there and stay there and just linger for a while and you know as the saying goes smell the roses take take uh the moving picture take the video of the waterfalls and let them let them be the language of the day let them be the conversation let them be the visual stimulation the mental stimulation the emotional stimulation or Escape and that's why I'm calling it Mountain meditations and that's why I'm doing it it's something to do where maybe at some point in the futureit's something that I can't do anymore so I'll be looking back but right now it's a beautiful thing and so that kind of explains it I don't know if I had any other profound thoughts in my mind I doubt it I spent the day before that putting in my battery my uh home home my whole home battery backup system um I have yet to have it installed that's going to be next on my agenda I have to do my taxes so I had a bunch of things lined up that I needed to do but instead of doing that I just worked on themountain meditations so that's in in a nutshell and Monkey Head this is sweet baby boy let me let me yeah this is my companion do you ever complain about what we're going to do today Zeke you know in reality you do that's the joke of it any living creature has their own needs and their own demands don't they you seem to be subtle about it right this minute but boy when you want something you will not take no for an answer anyway that's it from Pete and Zeke signing out appreciate your time and attention ifyou're interested in listening if you're not nobody's making you do it all right take care of yourself so long bye-bye for now