Life in Motion

The Summer holiday provides a welcome opportunity to reflect on the year so far and perhaps to make plans for the future. As I look back over undeveloped notes for this blog, I find a few notes that seemed important when I made them, but which now puzzle me as I try to understand what I was really trying to say. Here's a diagram I made that clearly meant something at the time:


The notes on the same page as this diagram seemed to be dwelling on the theme of the roots we put down and how strong they may or may not be. Many of us lack the depth of rootedness that earlier generations had. Older age and youth are both periods in life in which one undergoes marked changes in a relatively short period of time. In a culture that is driven by the search for new uses for technology and the systemic obsolescence of current technology, it can be difficult to maintain a sense of personal stability in one's life in order to cope with growing up or growing older.