Sunday, March 16, 2008

movement

A winter storm has moved in, if you can call 60 degrees and partly cloudy skies winter. The last winter storm of the season for Arizona, so they say. But who are "they", and who really knows about the forces of nature.

The clouds danced across the sky all day on the prevailing winds just as the tectonic plates move over the molten gel of super-heated rock. Fitting together, pulling apart. Movement is inevitable, really... but it is hard to predict where it will happen, how it will play out. Will it be a smooth sliding of one thing over another, a buckling where apposing forces push together, or a catastrophic occurrence, like a hurricane or volcanic eruption which will leave a trail of destruction in it's wake?.

I don't know if it is the wind, the change in barometric pressure, the push-pull of living or the events of the last few days, but I am moving again, too. And I do not know where or how it will play out.

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