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A life
transforming experience in Northeast Harbor, Maine
by Leslie
H.
My most recent
foray into the magic world of pure idyll took me the last week
in June to Northeast Harbor, Maine. For the  first
time in the 25-odd years I'd been visiting this charming hamlet,
the weather was endlessly socked in with fog hovering at about
200 feet.But weather in this place is not a factor to be connected
with either euphoria or disappointment.Fog simply added another
aspect of magic to my consciousness. Northeast Harbor was, this
time around, even more special, in that a greater sense of insularity
became available to me, heightening the feeling of just where
I was.
For example,
at about 6:30 in the morning, I emerged from the Colonel's Bakery
and Restaurant on the Main Street with the only cup of coffee
I allow myself each day, and sat on the bench in an atmosphere
of both complete silence and a kind of ectoplasm around me due
to the fog. There was no one else on Main St. whom I could see,
and the wonder of pure solitude set in .My eyes were attracted
by a movement below and in front of me. It was a black ant, carrying
some matter for direct shipment to its colony. As it crossed
my line of vision, from right to left, it became clear to me
that this creature was on a positively Brobdingnagian quest to
successfully complete his task.
What is so
compelling to me is that because of the rather singular confluence
of events formed by the utter tranquillity permeating my senses,
I became no larger than that ant;or, perhaps, the ant increased
to my size. I feel confident that this kind of experience will
not again be available in this life.
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