SPIRALS – life cycle

For everything there is a season,
and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, a time to die…

Ecclesiastes 3.1

It seems I’ve been traveling quite a bit in the past couple of months.  Between the ups and downs of airplanes, I felt the undulating cycles of life.   The trees and plants are in different stages of emerging and fading, creeks rejuvenate after a stretch of drought, the moon waxes and wanes and the tides rise and fall.

The ancient cultures understood the constant rhythm ...