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Yoga and Contentment

December 2, 2006 by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes digs through piles of laundry & finds bliss. The second in a ten-part series exploring the yamas & niyamas.

From ascent magazine, issue 32, winter 2006:

I often dream of water. Water breaking up after a long hold in winter ice. Water rushing gently with me in a canoe, swaying across its current. Water pooling to rest, then tumbling downward again. Clear water. Weed-choked water. Burbling water. Deep blue, aquamarine, glacial-green, summer-brown, snow-melt white. Water takes many forms in my night wanderings. Always, the water is moving, changing and transporting itself, mirroring my own efforts toward self-realization. Always, and strangely enough, the water seems contented to be in whatever state it is. It moves with acceptance along a varied path…

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Eileen Delehanty Pearkes explores landscape, history and the human imagination in writing, maps and visual notebooks.

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