You can’t, we are told, step in the same river twice. The water is always moving, and life never holds still so that we can freeze the moment. But you can float with the river, holding to your same river by moving along with it, keeping the moment by releasing yourself to move as it moves.
What helps you to “go with the flow”?
Sunflowers track the sun across the sky because the stem that holds the flower grows faster on the side facing the sun. They literally orient themselves for growth.
What do you do to orient yourself toward your growing edge?
Cozy or claustrophobic? Efficient or cramped? Organic or utterly disorganized?
How does the idea of living in such close proximity to your neighbors feel to you?
Stunning plumes of spray happen when the ocean crashes up against a rocky shoreline. While coming to rest on a soft, sandy beach is a lot more pleasant, we are often at our most impressive when we run up against the hard places.
When has running up against a hard place brought out the best in you?
What we think of as a mushroom or toadstool is merely a fruiting body for the real plant whose tiny tendrils weave outward in a broad, unseen net. What we see of anyone’s life is really just the public face that fails to show more than a tiny fraction of who they are.
What do you wish more people recognized about you and your unseen life?
