Exploration 1: Back Away From The Meat!
New Year's Day I took a mini hike to the Jemez Hot Springs, located about an hour north of Albuquerque. It was a great way to connect with nature. Before we dive into it, I would like to wish everyone a very joyous new year! It's something of a remarkable thing each year when we gather with friends and family, if not alone, to reflect on the year that so quickly came and went. Years, time I suppose, are like wide rivers that approach a restricted passage. Everything moves so slowly, calmly if we are fortunate, then without realizing it the water has sped up and we're sailing at full speed down the same river. Then the water again finds it's opening and everything again slows down as the new year starts. In contrast to new year celebrations of my past, I brought in the new year in meditation. It was something of a last minute decision after a new friend that I made during this visit to New Mexico expressed he was thinking about driving to Santa Fe to spend NYE a...