Morning Meditation: Living Above the Fog
Original journal entry from June 2, 2025 – A spontaneous morning meditation during my drive, not tied to a specific lesson but inspired by ongoing reflections from the program. This captures a moment of clarity while descending from Ramona into the valley fog — a metaphor for staying spiritually "above" life's challenges while appreciating the view from both high and low.
Living above the fog
This morning, I was driving my route to school and I was just contemplating my drive down into the valley from an elevated position. My town, Ramona, sits at about 1400 feet above sea level and pretty much anywhere else one can go outside of Ramona takes you somewhere down the hill most of the time.
And this morning as I was driving down the hill I had this view of the valley before me. And the valley was covered in fog. And isn’t that the perspective that I should always try to keep when I look at circumstances and situations in my life? When I’m down in the valley, in the thick of things, I have trouble finding the positive, I fail to see what’s right in front of me, the next step in front of me, and I don’t realize that I’m not alone. The fog keeps me from seeing others around me. The fog prevents me from seeing an opportunity or a solution.
But when I’m above the fog, everything becomes more clear. It’s funny to me how this was revealed to me this morning. I was reminded that I live above the fog. And isn’t that what I’m supposed to do, or at least to work towards; to live in a way that I’m always above the fog. But every now and then it is good to go down into the valley and be in the fog for a moment or two so that when I come back and see things from above the fog, I’m reminded of where I’m supposed to live, I’m reminded of where I came from and where my home is.
P.S. I don’t speak a lick of Portuguese but this is one of my portals to my sacred place, as Campbell calls it.
https://youtu.be/8_1cJkQePRg
It’s laced with the good stuff so use with caution!
Umalohókan
House of Twin Suns
TM: Carlos Martinez
"You don't have to see the whole staircase just to take the first step."
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Looking back now: This spontaneous meditation during a routine drive shows how the Initiate Program lessons were already influencing my everyday awareness — turning ordinary moments into opportunities for deeper insight about perspective, home, and sacred space.