Shoulders ready for a reprieve, we were on the homestretch of a backcountry trip in the desert. What started as intense dryness and sun became a sandstorm, then soaking rain, then driving sleet. A brief respite - before the snow - as the sun's rays alighted on the small swath of red rock that we were traversing. With the Needles behind me and hundred mile views toward the Sierra La Sals before me, something strange came to be. For the most fleeting of moments - before my mind could start thinking about what was happening - I experienced air, and in particular oxygen, as if I were underwater.
Just as you can feel the weight of water on your skin, take big gulps of it, see its dimensionality while immersed within it - for that short moment, I experienced air in exactly the same way. I moved through oxygen so thick, so visceral, I wondered how I had never noticed it before.
Where do you experience connection to the Whole, surrounding you? Where do you find those strange, wonderful glimmers of light?
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