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5x7 Quotable Art Card Narrative: “Of all my traveling companions over time, the most perfect I have ever known was also the most sublime. A transcendent magician with a sense of exquisite timing, knowing no obstacles on the path of life, while always moving and subliming. One whose travels never seemed on a clock or on a timer, and inspired simple awe in all sublimate forms, expressions, and manners – indeed a true sublimer.
I learned a secret from my timeless traveler friend – the drop, the trickle, the flow, the river, and its transcending wet – passing me by while whispering worldly wisdoms that only I could whet, and revealing that if there is magic on this planet to bend, with time it is most certainly contained in a drop of water my friend – and on that you can surely bet!
Have you learned that magic secret from water’s flow – that there is no such thing as time, that it does not exist static, and that it is everywhere and nowhere, and not at all in a line? It is on the air, and in the ground, upon the currents of the condensing clouds that lift, and in their drops that fall without resist, into a flow through the rivers and currents that meander into all oceans, then once again lift.
My friend, who is the flow of magic and its timeless secrets shown – and held in self – is the most perfect time traveler I have ever known, because when it does it transcends and becomes the path itself! Indeed, on the self-made path of the timeless traveler I must insist, that the secrets revealed are indeed our journey’s gifts, as one travels all places simultaneously in the here and now of our present’s drift – not upon the hopes of distant future's wished, nor in the shadows of life’s past rifts.” ~ Jack Mountain
I spent my whole day in water on the left fork of North Creek, of Zion National Park, hiking upstream for miles to a feature known as “The Subway”, and avoiding the spider-web of meandering social paths that led uncertain directions and sometimes exhausting ways to the next patch of water. I knew in my heart the self-made path of the river was the best path, and it was on this path 10 years ago that I began to learn the secrets of water, and the easiness it always makes for itself when just going with the flow and in the path of least resistance. As long as I stayed in the water making my own way, I never considered time or how long it was or wasn’t taking, as the present moments continuously kept me refreshed in life’s moments of beauty, rather than toiling and suffering on trails and wondering when I would get back to where I wanted to be. When I eventually reached the destination and object of my journey’s expectation, I was surprised to find that it produced no more pleasure or satisfaction to my day than every other step treasured along the way.
Rather than stop immediately to work my craft with the subway’s features and charms, I chose to continue, letting that objective wait, there would be no harm. I continued back on my way upstream, as far as it would allow me. Indeed, it was yards and moments later that I reached the end of my path that I could travel, yet felt no angst that I could go no further, for I had shared the path of this traveler companion, living timelessly and everywhere in each moment. I eventually returned to capture the scene I traveled there for, and while it was a great time and journey and good images, the image that meant the most to me was this point coming to the end, and realizing there was no end, just the timelessness of water’s flow of magic, and I had experienced all of it, everywhere, at once and continually on the path of the timeless traveler.