What do you see here? A beautiful lake in the mountains with a lot sailboats taking people out for a ride? Yes. And there is something else that is out there, that no one sees.
That is the old town of Dillon, which is at the bottom of the lake. Probably a lot of people do not know that, they are just enjoying the lake. And that is fine.
Symbolically, the element of water is about our relationships, emotions, love, connections, and that is why we always express emotions in watery terms. Blood, sweat, tears, orgasms, our sense of taste. All ways that water conveys our emotions.
How many of us have buried towns beneath our waters? It is evolution when we leave an old part of our life behind as we chart new territories to explore and develop.
Water helps soothe emotional pain. Water cleanses. Water is a current that aligns with our flow and travels with us as we move forward in life.
Our old history is below, the present is on top. We do not have to keep tripping and stumbling on the old things that once were problems. Once we have learned our lessons and made peace with ourselves, we can use that wisdom to move on to higher levels.
Knowing what parts of the history need to be examined before they can be healed is one aspect, another is simply letting go of those experiences that we have already examined and can be left peacefully buried.
The symbolism was something that caught my attention when I thought about sailboats smoothly maneuvering over a sunken town.
This photo is Lake Dillon. This weekend I had the pleasure of reading for a party out there.
In the winter this is one of the towns where people stay to go skiing. In the summer, there is boating, bicycling, and hiking.
What I learned was that at the bottom of this lake sits the original town of Dillon. Years ago, it started with prospectors and a trading post. Many of the towns that are now ski resorts were originally mining towns. So was Blackhawk, where people today try to strike it rich at gambling tables.
What happened is that Denver bought the land out there and built a dam that is fed by water from the Snake River & Tenmile Creek. Today Dillon serves a reservoir for Denver and other front range cities.
Other places in the U.S. have also done that, create lakes that displaced little towns. The original town gave way to a new town. One chapter of our life leads to another.
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