Hard to believe that these calm waters have claimed numerous lives over the last 150 years.
A walk around the village of Stanley, surveying its monuments and graves, tells a story of savage waters and human tragedy. The stories of children, wives, fathers, mothers drowned off this part of Tasmania's coast is truly heart-breaking.
Everything here can change so quickly from tranquility to tempest. This is a tenuous, a volatile, peace.
It's a pattern we see duplicated across so many areas of life.
Today's stability is tomorrow's uncertainty. We've seen it on the share market recently. We see it in relationships. We experience it in the car that has run like a dream for 15 years, but wouldn't start this morning.
We walk into this pattern so many times across our decades, yet it almost always seems to throw us. The severity of the contrast can make it the harder to deal with.
What are the 'millponds' of your world - those things which look so dependable, stable, safe? And what would you do if tomorrow morning your millponds turned tempest?
1 comment:
Saw the picture and thought Wow and then I read your post and felt grateful yet again for ever having come across your blog in the first place. You are a very inspiring writer and I leave you now more thoughtful than when I arrived.
Thank you.
PS, you are welcome at my place any time.
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