I’ve been thinking a lot about how we outgrow the lives that we’ve been living and how life supports us in that. That support can often look like everything you value falling apart. Because it looks like falling apart instead of falling together, we tend to freak out instead of cooperating. Even knowing this is what is happening, I can be very uncooperative in this process. It’s like our lives swell past the banks we’ve erected and all we can perceive is the shrinking shore, rather than the growing, flowing river of our life.
I don’t think I was aware of this notion consciously when I took this picture, but in looking at it now, I think that’s exactly what I was photographing. The overflowing river is beautiful. That same beauty is trying to manifest in and through us. It also is instructional to notice that there ain’t no way to stop those swollen banks. Better to get a raft and enjoy the ride.
Swollen Banks – Congaree River ©Kathryn Van Aernum
Always good—and timely!—to receive your Black and White Friday posts, Kathryn. I feel, the more we stay connected to nature, the more we are attuned to our inner changes…or at least, realize that what we think is an unwieldy or unmanageable shift is actually (as you put it) things “falling together.” Thank you for insightful words as well as your great eye for capturing these images.
Thank you, Mary. I appreciate your feedback and appreciation! Oh, I listened to your recording per/severence on Sound Cloud. Awesome.