It Won't Slow Down

Returning to a place you have lived, you become more aware of how the landscape changes.  New houses, new business, new people.  All jump out at you as contrasts to your landscape of memory.

Before this experience, the changes were not as apparent.  Like the frog in water crawling to a boil. Gradual changes are not apparent.

In contrast, the flash pan fire of removal.  The people you knew changing, children growing, and landscapes evolving.

When in the same spot, the Earth can appear to stand still.  Start moving and the absence boils ferociously.

Sometimes it is too easy to focus on one place.  So easy that when you are attention shifts for one moment, your sense explode with new information.

In reality the change has been there all along.  You only had to shift position to see it.