Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Napoleon And Trout Fishing

I did my swimming at Marion Diehl Center today. VERY different from Foxcroft. The water was 88 degrees, passably clean...but an old and dinghy pool. Not sure if I'm going to continue. I may just start jogging, the weather is getting cooler for it.

While swimming I thought about the afterglow experiences I've had. Spaces that have left me with a lasting impression of unbounded sacredness.

http://www.rothkochapel.org/index.htm

Mission Statement

The Rothko Chapel is a scared space open to all, every day of the year, to provide a place of worship, meditation and prayer for people of all faiths; to provide a focal-point for people to gather and explore spiritual bonds common to all, to discuss human problems of world-wide interest, and to share a spiritual experience, each loyal to his belief, each respectful of the beliefs of others.


I experienced a spiritual afterglow when I visited the Rothko Chapel. The space washed over me the same way it did in meeting last week. And the same with these two experiences:

Trout fishing with my son in Cherokee County last summer.
Notre Dame Cathedral. Napolean Bonaparte was crowned here.

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