Heroes Not Zombies

We say “solid as a rock” when we refer to something unchanging, don’t we…..something consistent, something we can rely on to never change.

But even rocks change. Even mountains change. It’s just a matter of timescale. Day by days most rocks don’t seem to change very much, but week by week, year by year, decade by decade, it becomes gradually more obvious that they do.

Absolutely everything changes. Just at different rates.

One of the main ways that everything changes is through interaction with other elements. In the case of a stone like this, the wind, the rain and the sunshine are all in constant relationship with the stone, altering its structure and appearance bit by bit.

Of course all of this is much more obvious in a soft stone like this sandstone. The changes take much longer in something like granite.

When I look at a stone like this I am fascinated by the intricate patterns. They couldn’t have been predicted before they emerged. That’s a fundamental characteristic of all reality. Every stone, every river, every plant and animal, every person, is unique.

Unique and unpredictable at the level of detail. Unique and beautiful. Never “finished”, always a work in progress.