Recently, I have been taken by the serenity of the many dragonflies which gather over the hot springs we have been visiting - in the shadow of a nearby volcano. Hovering and lofting over the swirling, warm air currents, they are like miniature hangliders. The fragility of the dragonflies – their delicate asymmetrical balance. The almost infinite possibility of their next movement – forwards-sidewards, upwards-backwards, sideways-downwards – fills me with energy.
Together dragonflies dance a dissonant rhythm – a lite and uncomplicated sense of order filled with the risk of the unpredictable next moment. That dragonflies together give themselves over to seeming chaos – I find the rhythm of it profoundly alive and soothing!
The tranquillity of this dance of asymmetrical flight gives way to the poise of absolute stillness when one is at rest on a rock beside the pools. There seems to readiness & intention encoded into the very DNA of the dragonfly – they seem glued into the possibility of the next unpredictable movement. Dragonflies are hard to catch & yet for my young son - not impossible.
This is the field of chaos – unforming, reforming, tremendous elemental energy, danger, possibility, newness & even death ! Like the undecidability of a decision – to leap into the unpredictable next moment is an action of faith & hope – two steps further along in the passage towards the other !
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