The Setting for the Wilderness Pilgrimage
(the first of two newsletters on wilderness)
Losing Ourselves and Finding Ourselves Again and Again
(note the word again = a gain)
 
 
     Arbutus Lake is the lake that I lived on for the first 14 years of my life.  It is on a 15,000 acre tract of land deep in the heart of the Adirondacks - a wilderness preserve in upstate New York comprised of 2.7 million acres. This was the setting for my wilderness pilgrimage.
 Huntington Lodge
     This is the house that I grew up in on Arbutus Lake.  It is a scaled down version of what was an authentic Adirondack "camp" that was owned by Archer and Anna Huntington who looked all over the world to find a most beautiful place for their summer retreat. He had made his money in the railroad industry and Anna is remembered as a gifted sculptress.  They willed the land and retreat  to Syracuse University in the 1940's with the purpose of researching wildlife and wildlife habitat.  My parents moved into this house in 1952 when my Dad became director of research for the Huntington's forest and I was born the next year.
 
 

Kayak

 

Here, about to embark, on an early morning kayak adventure.  In this tract of 15,000 acres there are no motorized boats, jet skis, no other houses, and miles and miles of wilderness to explore!
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Hi Everyone!  I am so excited to have a chance to share these photos with you.  As you may know from the last newsletter, I was able to take 9 days in August to go to my childhood home and the tract of l5,000 acres of wilderness to collect flower essences for a Mary Essence related to our experience of wilderness, addressing our soul's need for wildness, being "lost" in the wilderness and "finding" ourselves in the wilderness.  And we are counseled that this experience will happen again and again ( a gain and a gain - so note, we make gains each time !!!! ) as we live out our divine destiny here on the earth plane. I want to take this first of two newsletters related to this experience to share with you the setting in the photos above. 
 
    So in several days you will receive the next newsletter with details of a new Mary Essence related to wilderness in the Mary Pilgrimage Collection. I still am not quite sure of the essence's name.  May be WILDERNESS OF THE SOUL or WILDERNESS MYSTIC or something else, haven't quite received the confirmation.  You will learn about the loon and bald eagle's contribution to our understanding of wilderness and how our observations of the animals add to our ability to be a human of integrity. You will see photos of some of the flowers collected whose service is to help us to fully experience the attributes that serve us to experience more completely our intimate and essential connection with mountains, oceans, tree, lakes, rocks, animals, birds, plants and flowers. Your understanding of the experience of solitude may gain new perspective and you will learn how experiencing wilderness is a mirror for greater understanding of self.  Stay tuned!!!!!!!!!!!!  Infinite Blessings of love and light, elizabeth