Nonlinear iteration or repetition with a slight difference each time

Nonlinear iteration or repetition with a slight difference each time is something I've been thinking of quite a bit recently. The cumulative effect is like steering a boat one degree off course, which is not much at all, yet days later finding you're thousands of miles off-course to the left or the right of your target.

My point here is that any slight change in a repetitious thought pattern can bring about major changes, and so if everything is connected to everything else, as it appears, we can bring change to any situation!

So rambling on: often I'm reminded that it all comes down to awareness. On this score last evening I took a gentle walk from Lake Wanaka down the Outlet Track beside the Clutha river, and found I could walk slightly faster than kayakers, so I hastened to a high spot above rapids and made some photos.

The camera was desperately trying to focus when I clicked the shutter and I found I'd captured a reality a little different to what I'd anticipated...


This is what I had in mind...


Both pictures are true and illustrate to myself at least that to make sense of the fact they are both pretty much of the same subject matter, we need a context that matches both.

So I walk through life of late wondering just where I can place a very small amount of energy in a way that draws events into a context of a higher order, like the first image. All events and situations have a critical point of balance too and once identified we can stop or start anything in our dynamic universe with very little effort, if we know the most effective place to direct our energy too.

We may have to look carefully to find, for example, how to bring plans to dam this river into a focus where people treasure nature, rather than attempting to spoil it in the name of progress and money. When we kill rivers we are indulging in violence against ourselves - if they die, so too will we simply through a lack of water quality [this already happening to thousands of kids world wide daily], not to mention the spiritual...


This living entity with it's feet in the river knows this also , but we simply don't have the context yet to understand what it knows and what we don't know. Our egos need a little dissolution for starters...