Life is movement, change and renewal.
Everything in the Universe changes. Ageing is with us every day.
Once I could walk a 1000km Camino. Now the hill home is too much. Everything changes.
Arriving in Manjarin on the Camino Frances. 2014. Now permanently closed.
Much has changed since 2016, when I last posted here. I have re-named the blog. “The-Raft-of-Corks.com” is now a part of johncameronfletcher.com.
The-raft-of-corks blog was largely about the Camino to Santiago de Compostella.
This blog will continue the tone. It has a wider scope.
This is a time of great change. We are engineering a new Goeological era: the Anthropocene. Humanity is experiencing acceleration as never before.
When I was walking my pilgrimange routes people I met would often ask me if I was going to write about my adventures. My reply was always,”I’ve got nothing to write.” ´´That is no longer the case. My conceptual framework is much less steady.
What does not change has no life. Life is movement, growth, decay, renewal. Everything alive is immersed in change.
Scenes like this one are disappearing rapidly.
In many ways, I intend this website to be an autobiographical celebration of life itself. At the same time, it is an acknowledgement that each death marks the end of an individual life. I suppose, as my 78th birthday approaches, I’d better get on with it.
This section of The Raft of Corks brings together pages that explore the theme of change.
In human life every breath brings something new. I invite you to take a look from time to time at the pages in this section.
Find for yourself new landscapes.
Pause over new questions.
Inhale fresh air!