Contemplation, pt. 1

 

Hiking a trail with friends, our conversation moves across the ground and through the trees as each person comments-listens-looks around....much like the bird, squirrel and chipmunk chatter surrounding us. 

After some pause-and-play time on a large rock outcropping, our group presses onward. A small white root system captures my attention. I kneel for a closer look and feel as if 

all of the world is here, looking back at me. 

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I've been returning again and again to this photograph. There's so much here for me that I am unable to articulate. As with any time I spend in contemplation, I turn the object/the question/the image over and around.....and even turn myself over and around in relation to it. 

Here I am today—

growing up, growing down:
cycles of life, death and contemplation.


photo credit: me, on the trail to Giants Ledge, Rosendale, NY; May 2018.