Heroes Not Zombies

Turn up your volume…..

We had the longest, most severe drought here in France in 2022. The grass turned brown and crispy underfoot. There was one heat wave after another and many weeks without rain.

The Roman spring opposite where I live (the French word for a spring is a “source”, which I think I prefer) was hugely diminished. The water level dropped and dropped. There was still some water making its way underground into the Roman aqueduct but not enough to flow over the edge of the pool. This meant the source seemed still and silent. It wasn’t immediately apparent there was any flow at all. Here’s a photo from towards the end of summer…

If you look closely you’ll see the water level is below the top of the stone at the outlet.

Flow feels like Life.

Without the flow of blood around your body you’d die. Without of the flow of air in and out of your lungs you’d die. Without the flow of nutrients in the form of food and drink you’d die. We are flow – the constant flow of materials, energy and information into and through us, creating us, remaking us, a Life Force living through us.

And in the rhythms of the natural world those diverse and interconnected flows come and go in terms of intensity and power.

Sometimes we are vivacious. Full of life and energy. Sometimes we are quiet. Settled and at ease.

But always…..we flow.