Autobahn-Bridge over the valley from 3205 Gümmenen
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Act of Beauty: We created a sacred “Altar” with stones from the place, a rose from the heart-talkingstaff-circle we lead and a incense from India. Then the sky showed us the Beauty immediately: a rainbow! We sang the Gayatrimantra from India for all directions!
When we decided at home to go out, a song was on the radio: “Gaia, I adore you…”, a beautiful jazz-song. A sign to go, for us!
We went by bicycle and we were later than we planed before… first we were in discussion, because we were later, Jan became hunger… Then a wonderful bird (Mäusebussard) showed us, that we are right. Also a (Feldlerche) sang her beautiful song for us. So we went for the rail station to catch the bicycle of Jan because it was still there. On this way with just one bicycle, we had fun to ride both on it, very romantic for us, like you don’t have it in a car…
So we arrived at the Place we decided to go: an Autobahn-Bridge, over a valley. We realized that when we drive in a car, the landscape outside is often very beautiful, but we don’t think about the people who live near this Autobahn, it’s not beautiful for them at all…A third bird said to us welcome. And it begins to rain at this moment. We took a moment to walk on the place, under the bridge, in silence and each alone. Then we gathered. We both saw very well the beauty of this place: beautiful plants, beautiful landscape around, beautiful clouds… I said, that it’s often like this, that I sea the beauty first, it was also a little bit like: This place is not so wounded, it’s not so bad to have Autobahns in Switzerland. It’s a very Swiss mentality to think: oh, it’s not so bad! Perhaps it’s also a protection of the bad feelings, to feel guilty, to know that cars are a problem and not to act anything…Also the noise from the cars we didn’t hear well, because the bridge is high.
Then we made an Altar of the stones there. I brought a yellow rose with me from the heart-talkingstaff-circle we lead together, Jan and I. There is always good heart energy, that I wanted to bring to this place. Jan brought a Indian Incense to the place, a perfume he like very much. Unfortunately the pocket-lighter, who Jan has had since 20 years ago from Berlin, didn’t have enough gas to light the incense… we tried hard. So we stand by the Altar, and immediately the sky showed us his beauty: a rainbow! First just a part of it, at last, over the bridge! It was magic! So you can see some photos…. (P1030394.jpg is the best for us!) We had “radical joy” to take pictures from us, the bridge and the miracle bridge in the sky! We really felt like this place is healed a little bit more! We sang the Gayatrimantra to finish our Exchange, we were so full and grace in our heart!
Yvonne and Jan
Act of Beauty: We created a sacred “Altar” with stones from the place, a rose from the heart-talkingstaff-circle we lead and a incense from India. Then the sky showed us the Beauty immediately: a rainbow! We sang the Gayatrimantra from India for all directions!
When we decided at home to go out, a song was on the radio: “Gaia, I adore you…”, a beautiful jazz-song. A sign to go, for us!
We went by bicycle and we were later than we planed before… first we were in discussion, because we were later, Jan became hunger… Then a wonderful bird (Mäusebussard) showed us, that we are right. Also a (Feldlerche) sang her beautiful song for us. So we went for the rail station to catch the bicycle of Jan because it was still there. On this way with just one bicycle, we had fun to ride both on it, very romantic for us, like you don’t have it in a car…
So we arrived at the Place we decided to go: an Autobahn-Bridge, over a valley. We realized that when we drive in a car, the landscape outside is often very beautiful, but we don’t think about the people who live near this Autobahn, it’s not beautiful for them at all…A third bird said to us welcome. And it begins to rain at this moment. We took a moment to walk on the place, under the bridge, in silence and each alone. Then we gathered. We both saw very well the beauty of this place: beautiful plants, beautiful landscape around, beautiful clouds… I said, that it’s often like this, that I sea the beauty first, it was also a little bit like: This place is not so wounded, it’s not so bad to have Autobahns in Switzerland. It’s a very Swiss mentality to think: oh, it’s not so bad! Perhaps it’s also a protection of the bad feelings, to feel guilty, to know that cars are a problem and not to act anything…Also the noise from the cars we didn’t hear well, because the bridge is high.
Then we made an Altar of the stones there. I brought a yellow rose with me from the heart-talkingstaff-circle we lead together, Jan and I. There is always good heart energy, that I wanted to bring to this place. Jan brought a Indian Incense to the place, a perfume he like very much. Unfortunately the pocket-lighter, who Jan has had since 20 years ago from Berlin, didn’t have enough gas to light the incense… we tried hard. So we stand by the Altar, and immediately the sky showed us his beauty: a rainbow! First just a part of it, at last, over the bridge! It was magic! So you can see some photos…. (P1030394.jpg is the best for us!) We had “radical joy” to take pictures from us, the bridge and the miracle bridge in the sky! We really felt like this place is healed a little bit more! We sang the Gayatrimantra to finish our Exchange, we were so full and grace in our heart!
Yvonne and Jan
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