Apr TIF Hadley
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
The verbal challenge/prompt for the April Take it Further challenge is "how do you think about/deal with change?"
The short answer is "badly".
The longer answer is, well, much longer.
Mostly I stand as still as possible and try to see what is coming so I can brace for it. Sometimes I have a dim kind of plan, like my over all outline for how to get the children to walk with me, bike with me, sail with me, camp with me. (Those are the easy ones. Keep it short and fun, always leave them wanting more.) Sometimes I am completely blindsided - parenting in general is SO not what I expected...
Thinking about change made me think about the seasons changing, and about the the way the river changes the valley.
The seasons change constantly, but we are made most aware of it when it happens quickest, during the spring and fall as the sun races from one extreme of daylight to the other. The seasons seem to pause, and hover at midsummer and midwinter, then the time piles up and we roar forward through another whirlwind of seasonal change.
To address that, I am trying to show my river in spring. I can see the faint ridges where the river used to run, with fields starting to spring green across it. I can see, in the oxbow and the older nearly obliterated oxbow, where it ran centuries ago. I can see the greening of the trees as new leaves start. The river is high and wide and muscular, rolling through the valley it has carved.
Apr TIF oxbow 2
Originally uploaded by Dancing Crow.
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