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| Taylor Dock, kind of a "locals' secret" has become my place for walking meditations. These are strange days, indeed: tapering off pain medications harder to withdraw from than heroin. Why did no one tell me? Since January, I am tapering off nearly all pain and anti-seizure medication (taken to help prevent chronic, daily migraine) due to contraindications and an unusual heart condition, a fifth electrical pathway in my heart...the only way to survive the process is to WALK IT OFF. I didn't know how. With Nordic walking poles, determination, discipline and grit to walk every day or nearly so, I feel transformed - at least while out. Once home, it's the shakes, pain, mood swings... severe fatigue, weakness, dizziness, vertigo, nausea, falling, passing out, ad nauseum. This process will continue for at least another year. Walking, yoga, and meditation are saving me. My friends are saving me. The guinea pigs rescue me! Deep in meditation, surrounded by the San Juan Islands, nothing exists but pure, unadulterated exhilaration that I can walk again! So many cannot, and those who can often take it for granted unless they, too, have struggled back to the world of the Living from the Brink...Here, filled with joy and unending gratitude, Heaven descends to Earth with Grace Endless. |
