Koi Pond DigWalking ’round the Koi Pond yesterday, I noticed the ice level very low. The pond appeared to have lost a lot of water and the base of the pond looked frozen solid (in my mind, I saw our colorful fish lodged motionless in an ice-block). My heart raced and I rushed into a state of emergency. I grabbed a shovel and began to dig my way to the rock base, then up over the edge, clearing snow from over the pond surface, then from the ice cover. I could hear the bubbler in the water, but I could not see any water. Again, the whole surface looked dangerously low and frozen solid. As I had weeks before stood on the ice along the pond’s edge, I cautiously placed my right foot on the ice surface, while standing with my left foot on the pond’s rock edge. Moving just an inch with my shovel to scrape snow away from the sound source, my left leg dropped – two-plus feet into the freezing water! Shocked, I placed my hands on the ice covering in the middle to steady myself and lift my leg out of the ice bath. As I pulled it out, my jeans froze on air contact. My fingers burned on the verge of frostbite. As soon as I had extricated myself from the death-trap, I ditched the shovel, booked into the house and washed warm water over my hands. I laughed at myself and exclaimed, “The fish are fine!”
Moving forward with a listening heart,
vision, inquiry, and action,
~ Mary
