Standing firm

It seems there is an ebb and flow to all things.  Life is never static and any feeling that it is -- is an illusion.  

That doesn’t mean vacillating between two different philosophies, but simply allowing for the give and take necessary to stand firm.

I look to nature for examples of how to live.  The mountains never move.  They stand solid and seemingly implacable as nature slowly erodes them and carries them away.  Wind and water may seem soft and fluid, but they are deceptively strong.  Beaches yield to the forces that constantly flow over their surface and yet they tend to grow.  There are casualties along both ways, but really these only move on to another destination.

I like to think of my life as a beach filled with people and places and possibilities, all of them in constant movement.  Security depends less on maintaining the status quo than on learning to synchronize my habits and thoughts with what is currently happening.