delta means change

i've long been fascinated by the few "interior deltas" that exist in the world... these are places where a river passes through an area that is basically flat, but it is not the mouth of the river (thus "interior"). The river spreads out over the land and, instead of cutting a single channel, the waters separate and meet each other again and again and again.

Copper River delta, Alaska	Inner Niger Delta, West Africa (the "inner" part is on the left)

The wildlife in these places is rare and spectacular...

I'm forced to truncate this post, but all I was going to say is, sometimes it feels like I've gone over a waterfall on the edge of the world and spun out into space...

...but changes in life are much more like these waters...few things are final, few things are deadly, most changes will change again...lost things return or regenerate, deep things resurface to be healed... many things come and go like the phases of the moon i wrote about earlier, following their own cycles...

ok so it might have sounded less like a cliché if I'd had more time to write. :-P (and certainly would have included fewer instances of the word "thing" - sorry, Ms. Rogers).

Off to Miriam's writing retreat - can't wait to see her and experience the retreat for the first time! See you in a couple days.