The ePod as an object is interesting, a beautiful thing that captures ones attention and draws you nearer. Questions about it form in the mind and this is where stories start to germinate.

 

So is the ePod the seed, holding within it the potential for growth, or is it the fruit that holds the seed that will become the flower, the tree or a forest?

 

As with any story there is a point at which you start, you go from where you are at, but in reality there is always something that came before and something that will go on afterwards. It is only in our minds that there is any sort of meaningful start or ending, as for in every other way, all is in flow.

 

The ePod is part of that flow, and like you, is part of the story.

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Stories have the power to change the world we live in. A story is not just something that is made up to entertain or to teach a particular lesson, it is a very real aspect of everyday life we use without even thinking about it most of the time.

 

What stories do we tell ourselves to get through the day, the good stories we use to make positive changes or the ones we repeat that hold us safe from disaster or lock us into inaction through fear?

 

Well, the ePod has a story, a story that found a way to be told. A story that made itself.  ​​

And where did it start? 

 

It all started in a small mining town located in the middle of England where stories of Hobbits having adventures (J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937) and children building spaceships (Children of the Dog Star, TVNZ 1984) were inspiring the imagination of a young child as they played amongst the trees and brackens of the local woodland of Cannock Chase in Staffordshire.

 

With imagination and determination intact, sharpened by the adventures and challenges that were to come out of an idyllic childhood, full of love and positive encouragement from committed parents, a young child became a man.

 

In the pursuit of providing enriching experiences for his own children, the adventures that had been found in the French Alps in winter and in the ancient volcanic landscape of the Auvergne region during the summer, were to be sort here in New Zealand, in the majestic mountains of the Southern Alps and in the beautiful braided rivers of South Canterbury.

 

There were many challenges to overcome to relocate from one side of the world to the other but like any challenge it was the story of things ‘working out’ that resulted in things ‘working out’. They didn’t work out as expected but that is part of the excitement of life that makes for the most excellent stories. 

 

We like a good twist in a story.

 

So like the twists and turns of the ever branching and remerging water ways of a braided river, the water weaves its way towards the sea, where at some point, it becomes part of the great water cycle that returns the water to the top of the mountains as cloud and rain.

 

All is in flow. 

 

Even when an obstruction to that flow is placed into its path it doesn’t stop flow. It merely changes it. Often creating more types of flow that fold and swirl around in new and interesting ways. (Look at the big rocks in a river as the water flows around them. Sometimes the water even flows backwards for a while.)

 

In many ways the story and the ePod are undergoing exactly the same dynamic and the boy that wanted to go on adventures and build spaceships stepped into the flow and moved with it too.

 

As with many stories, how the seemingly unconnected parts come together and start to form recognisable shapes we understand and know, they produce the outcomes we gain joy, satisfaction and meaning from. 

 

It is how all our stories interact, merge and emerge that brings us the same recognisable forms we know and love as being who and how we are. 

 

Yet it is always changing and flowing into some new story, and with the courage to step into the unknown, creates something new and interesting. We discover ourselves within it and achieve both unity and uniqueness without losing either.

 

I am grateful for the story and the ePod coming into my awareness as it continues to flow and grow into ever more beautiful things as we tell our stories together.

 

The story and the ePod was my intuitive and emotional response to the depth, truth and beauty found in the greatest story of all. Nature. The context all things flow through.

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What adventures are you on?

What stories will you discover?

What shape will you make?

 

It is always a start.

 

Flow well.

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