The image is of a section of the Colorado River at Navajo Bridge, Marble Canyon, AZ The river is shadowed by the steep canyon walls it has etched out for centuries. In the distance are red rock mountains. Colorado River Wisdom ~ by Robert J Tiess Five million years of sheer persistence coursing through its arteries, this river chisels, skims and whisks in millimeter increments across the plateau, ancient stones eroded slow while fissures vein, cleave into grooves that form the gorge: Grand Canyon's chasm widening. From tributaries to the sea, old wisdom's lodged deep in this rock, aged sediments of ancient truths deposited in caverns, cracks, abandoned hollows, vacant days where surges urge deliverance past impasse toward complete release: those wild flows just nature tames, reshapes, retains, lets swell beyond our inclinations of control and stagnant dams of human thought. Come listen to the canyon now: it gathers every echo, yes, returning cries, our causeless calls, but have you heard its poetry, its history, philosophy? It vibrates with the river's voice, which testifies to patience, grace, devotion, motion, diligence —that hardness shall be worn away, ground down, diminished over time, not with disorder, forces, war, but subtle currents, pressures welling till they shake and soon persuade the rigid it may slacken, lapse, oust boundaries, become the path to send whatever means to stream and liberate or saturate through barren valleys, fading lakes, the splintered deserts of the earth, or feed what heals, must congeal, immerse, inter, or resurrect what's dying to be borne again.
"Five million years of sheer persistence
coursing through its arteries,
this river chisels,
skims and whisks
in millimeter increments
across the plateau..."
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