Listening to the lake Sunday mornings

Here's an Onondaga Lake experience you won't want to miss. Join us every Sunday morning at 6 am for "listening the the Lake," our chance to sit in silence along the shores of Onondaga Lake. Onondaga Lake, of course, has great spiritual significance as well as a long history of gross mistreatment on the part of industrial and municipal process.

We just sit 45 minutes in silence near the shore or actually over the water on a pier. Meet near the Salt Museum. You might want to bring something to sit on (pad, lawn chair, etc), and dress for the weather if it's cool (can be pleasantly breezey).

We finish by 7 or 7:15. Those of us who have been doing it find that we are discovering a "new" lake, or a new relationship with a much-maligned and abused body of water.

I always notice the birds-- last week eye to eye with Canada goose. Goslings wavering whistles, rather wigeon-like. Also heard common terns over the water, and the leaf patter of cottonwood under which we sat.