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October 12, 2007
Friday Creature or The Floating Dove
I like this photo because even though the powerline is clearly visible, it seems to me that the dove is floating without flying. The amount of blue sky around it lends to that effect.
Can't wait to see today's other Friday Creatures on the ark!
In other news, I've been thinking about change lately. Something I never anticipated about my 20s was that you don't just magically become an adult in the midst of things being the same as they always were. I assumed without really thinking about it that going to college or other such post-high school plans somehow transforms you into a grown up as if by magic wand. It never occured to me that things were going to change, almost constantly, and those changes would force me to play catch up, or even knock me with the wand without my noticing.
The pace of life has speeded up since high school, which I remember as being excruciatingly slow and stretching ahead of me like a dull highway to the horizon. Losing friends and family to disagreements and death in the past year is probably the most obvious source of change and has added a sense of urgency to getting some of the marrow out of life (as Thoreau so excellently put it). Indeed, I'm going to another funeral today which has pushed all this to the forefront of my mind, that of family friend, excellent writer, and inspirational life Ken Smith.
But there are also little things that serve as less stinging, less dramatic reminders that things keep moving. Professors I've known since I was four retiring when it seemed they were as much a fixture at the university as the bizzare 70s architecture, for example. Or the English department faculty/student softball game and after-party, both of which have gone on at least as long as my family has been in Chattanooga, and the later of which is being hosted by someone new this year. Every once and a while something little catches your eye and remindes you that everything is carrying on, but without the comfort of it being in a story about times, people, and places that have already done so. It's a little sad, and a little scary, but it's a reminder to keep participating in life, and to not be left standing stagnant.
| By Spike | 10:56 AM
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