Month: July 2022

A Launching Point

by Ebb Then Flood

‘A Launching Point’

Where to from here?

What do I really want to be?

The answer to each question begins at a launching point.

It may end at a visible horizon, something known.

Or in a place beyond that horizon, a place uncertain.

Whatever it is to be, it is not the status quo.

Courage, energy and vision are what are required at a launching point.

If that is where you are, I wish you those attributes in spades!

Ready to launch?

Last Of The Dying Leaves

by Ebb Then Flood

‘Last Of The Dying Leaves’

Took this one looking up through the tangled branches of a tree to the clear, pale winter sky, with a few reddish leaves just hanging on.

The tree in question is next to an Auckland hospital.There for a follow-up appointment yesterday with the surgeon who handled my cancer treatment last year and who performed life saving surgery. All going well despite a fair amount of ongoing pain – the surgeon was happy with progress, but confessed that he had no certainty at all that I would make it through.

In this picture I am reminded by nature of the bleak time when I was tangled up and literally just hanging on… but there was always the expanse of a sky above to reach up to. Hope is everything in such a situation, so very powerful…