Changes

Its late May and very cool for this time of year. I have to go to the store for a few minutes so I grab a light jacket and some comfortable shoes so I can walk before I come back. Its a great day for walking, its nice and breezy with a cool freshness in the air. Getting back from town I see my sister in law trying to get two calves back in the pasture. Theres a place where I park that the barbed wire is broken and that is where they escape. There are changes there because my dad would always check things like that and fix it the first time they got out. But hes much older now, in mid-80's and not much able to keep it up like he once was. So its kind of on my brother to fix it. Anyway we get the calves back in and I go on down to the river. There are four-wheeler tracks everywhere. More changes, nobody walks through the woods anymore to hear the quiet and peacefullness of nature. How can you over the sound of an engine? Sometimes they should stop and just listen and let their eyes see. But most of the younger generation doesn't seem to be interested. What if lack of interest causes them to loose that beauty? How can we wake them up? I go on down to the river, its very low. You could walk across it without getting your knees wet. The river always changes. Sometimes high water makes new changes in the woods with new gullies and washed out trees. This only adds to the beauty as nature plans it. It makes room for new trees and new water runs. Even the stream has changes. Over the years since I was a child it has gotten deeper. Some places more than others. A tree falls in the water and creates a new waterfall as the water rushes across it or it makes a deeper hole where it washes under. The trees grow and give the undergrowth sunlight. You can see the movement of the sun on trees as the wind blows the shadow of the leaves about. It makes a constant movement of the sun on the tree trunks. Everything changes in life and we must learn to accept those changes and go with them. To live and not change is boring and never meant to happen. Change is always good. It adds spice to life and living. So relax and enjoy the changes in your life.