One of my favourite walks locally is to the Bracklinn Falls in nearby Callander. I love to gaze at the peaty brown water tumbling and foaming over the rocks and to wonder (yes, with emerveillement) at the incredible way the water continuously sculpts the stone.
Isn’t that amazing? It makes me think of the interconnectedness of everything and of Deleuze‘s concept of becoming. It makes me reflect on how we shape our environment and our environment shapes us, because we are like the water, constantly moving, changing, making choices to go one way or another, our set of possible choices made in the world which we have partly shaped as the water shapes the rock. A constant, dynamic, where the path we take today creates the possible future paths of ourselves and others, as the rock the water shapes creates the water’s possible paths.
But most of all, it just absorbs me, captures my attention, and fills me with wonder.




Absolutely gorgeous shots. What an eye! Thanks!
I have spent many hours at the falls too often running up in my lunchbreak ..it can be great in the autumn ……Climbing down to the washed out pools and looking into the sculpted gorge reminds me of things I have read about water and transformation. Go fishing is a great poem by Ted Hughes on the symbolism of water and transformation — you can read about it here http://ann.skea.com/cairo.htm
I like the taoist idea of water and resistance and its application to health –stasis , change , growth and this is the basis of tai chi movement principles –you can read about one fascinating womans journey with tai chi here -http://www.gerdageddes.com/gerda.htm
Yes many things emerge when you look into the Bracklinn Falls (which is where I am typing this from –the Bracklinn Practice Callander!)