My cathedral
West Haven Beach
The gazebo on the left is where many couples begin their married life. It is my favorite place to watch the sun come up over Long Island Sound. When I can drag my butt out of bed early enough to make sunrise. 
What is your place of worship like?
Everyday I go for long walks. I try to both exercise my body, and relax my mind. Below are two pictures of the park I often use for both these activities.
Waterfall By Legion Pool
Nature Trail
What is your favorite way to exercise your body?
What is your favorite way to relax your mind?
My favorite song for just sitting back and chillin is Van Morrison’s “Into the Mystic”. I couldn’t find a good video of his singing the song, but I like Jen Chapin’s version.
What is your favorite chillin out song?
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June 29, 2009 at 1:20 am
lovewillbringustogether
What’s your place of Worship like?:
www-pm.larc.nasa.gov/triana/Earth.galileo.jpg
Favourite way to exercise?: When i used to do it regularly and my bum could stand it – cycling around the cyclepaths that border the beautiful Swan River in Perth Aus. Sometimes golf was high on the list – at the times when i did not suck and i could actually enjoy the company and scenery. These days it is walking.
Favourite way to relax my mind?: Sleep.
Eating a nice Chinese meal can sometimes come close. Most other things stimulate my mind too much – even a walk along a beach or through that wonderful looking ‘Nature Trail’.
i try meditation and prayer but find it so hard to ’switch off’ for anything longer than 30 seconds.
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June 29, 2009 at 4:53 pm
edfromct
You have a pretty big house of worship Love.
Cycling is better to burn up the carbs, and to travel long distance, but walking lets us take our time, smell all the roses, assuming you are not walking along a road breathing in all the cars exhaust fumes.
The Swan River walk looks spactaular.
http://www.rogerswebsite.com/Australia/75%20-%20Perth%20and%20the%20Swan%20River.jpg
You are right, the off switch to our brain is pretty hard to find, expecially in this fast paced, overstimulated, world.
I do try to meditate once a day, if I can find a quiet place. The best place I have found is a small chapel in a local church that is almost always empty during the day.
June 29, 2009 at 8:33 am
Indian Lake Papa
I still like to ride bike with mama for exercise – I can’t do the distance I use to but 5 miles a ride is still my goal> Golf? Never have even held a club in my hand.
We have a neighbor who has a campfire almost every night through the summer – from about 7:30p until 10p and many of the neighbors ’stop by’ to chat or relax. You would enjoy that Ed – very relaxed conversation.
One of my special times of the day are at the prayer cottage – I am usually alone and pray, listen to music and have a devotional time.
Favorite song? Several hymns come to mind; “It is well with my soul” Is a favorite.
June 29, 2009 at 5:07 pm
edfromct
A bike ride in the country is a great way to exercise.
Getting older doesn’t mean not exercising. We just can’t do it as quickly, or for as long, as when we were younger.
Spending time around a campfire at night with friends is a great way to end the day. Being diabetic I would have to skip the marshmallows.
I think everyone needs some time alone each day. It is better for focusing our thoughts, or having none at all.
“It Is Well With My Soul” By The Issacs
June 29, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Indian Lake Papa
Thank you for the song Ed – it is well with my soul today.
June 29, 2009 at 11:50 pm
edfromct
Glad to hear that Papa. Peace does start from within.
June 29, 2009 at 11:33 pm
lovewillbringustogether
Great Picture! The ’spit’ in the middle of the river is a sand bar almost 1 km in length and extends from a beauty spot named ‘Point Walter. The river is partly ‘tidal’ and the sandbar can sometimes be under a couple of feet of salt water. it is an amazing feeling to walk to the end and be within a few metres of the cliffs on the other side of the river, which is very deep at that point and then lok around you and see such a mass of water all around you with nothing but a thin line of sand linking you back to the shore. The spit is a very popular spot for paragliders now – i have some pics in my ‘beaches’ section of the photography page.
The Central Business District of Perth is about 10Kms (6 Mi) from the coast, however the Swan River flows at an angle to the coast and past the CBD (Which is visible on the horizon of this somewhat old-looking photo)
such that it is around 20 kms along the ‘north’ coast shoreline and there is a walkway/cyclepath that follows the river’s edge for almost the entire distance.
There are four main bridges that cross the river (Two near the port of Fremantle and two near the city-centre of Perth) and the cycleways that cross these and run back up along the southern river foreshore make for a beautiful round trip ride of some 50 Km’s (30 Mi)!
The cycleways also extend for many km’s inland from the city giving me a vast range of purpose built cyclepaths with magnificent stetches of river scenery.
At the peak of my fitness i would ride the 10 km distance around the two Perth Bridges over the river 3 times in my lunch hour from my job as a civil servant that was on top of two 17 km rides to and from home to the city where i worked.
My ‘best’ ever ride was a 200km + ride for a Sunday day trip – it nearly killed me
After that i had a much greater respect for the Tour De France riders who do those rides for 21 days in a row and sometimes to the peaks of mountains – mine was mostly over flat country.
i do MUCH shorter slower rides these days!
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June 30, 2009 at 12:04 am
edfromct
“My ‘best’ ever ride was a 200km + ride for a Sunday day trip – it nearly killed me.”
Nearly killed you? I had almost had a heart attack reading about it.
The Tour De France riders must be in incredable shape. I would have a hard enough time walking up a moutain, let alone trying to do it on a bike.
The Swan River walk at 20 km (12 miles) is a nice hike. I still haven’t got back into shape from winter, and have yet to work up to a 3 mile “power walk”. I think most of the power part of my walking has turned into more of a power crawl. I could do the Swan River walk. It just might take me all day.