#ayearlookingfor fading and small things
Twice a year I get injections for my right knee – this was the first time for both knees. Seems kind of odd to be posting a picture of my knees, but they are a big part of my story and have granted abilities and provided limitations over the years. Shots are not my favorite (who really likes them?), but it’s now done and relief should come soon.
There was smoke/fog/steam billowing out of a local factory and I loved the way it looked in the fading sunlight. I wish I had my DSLR with me, but the phone did a decent job of capturing the essence of the feeling. Against the hard, cold buildings with their right angles and plain surfaces, there was a cloud that morphed and changed, flowed and waved before dissipating into the frosty air. It captured the sunlight and the flood lights unlike the buildings it was coming from. I could have watched it for a long time – just moving.
Though it was negative and single digit temperatures today, some of the snow began melting on the window. The sunset lit up the droplets against the painted sky.
Both the sunset and the steam are a reminder that there are seasons, cycles. Things do not last, but instead morph and eventually fade.
I want to walk out of this past season, morph and reflect and then let it fade. I don’t want to hang on to so much of what has been hard about it, but move forward with a renewed purpose and vision – for who I truly am to resurface, changed as it may be. I want to recognize that this too shall pass and keep small things small and in perspective. That it was necessary and hard, but there was beauty in the pain.
what season are you living now?
what physical representation describes it?
