In solitude, we are at home with the Ground of Being

Friday's snowshoe hike in the Never Summer Mountains elicited in me a sense both of solitude AND community. The trail had no human tracks, but this fact served merely to make the Snowshoe Hare tracks I encountered stand out more vividly. I felt at peace and at home surrounded by the Ground of Being that is always present in our lives, but which manifests Itself with especially intense clarity in the solitary spaces of the wilderness.

Photo: Snowshoe Hare tracks, Never Summer Range, CO, November 6, 2014