Cycles

October 12cycles,ferris wheel,new orleans city park

I am thankful for cycles. Many things involve cycles: each minute, hour, day, week, and year, the cycles of a washing machine, the wheels on our modes of transportation, and many other things. Even though each individual component of a cycle is a repeating unit, it is unique among itself from every other cycle. Cycles are sometimes artificially contrived things that enable us to make some kind of sense of what is actually an endless repeating pattern. It adds some kind of order to our lives. For example, what makes a Monday similar to all other Mondays, other than that they are all the beginning of a work week. Each Monday is like other Mondays but in actuality, every Monday is a completely different day.

I used this photo of the ferris wheel at New Orleans' City Park to illustrate the concept of cycle, since it is a large circular wheel which repeats a cycle for the enjoyment of its riders. It is a mini version of the "circle of life". 

cycles

there are cycles

repeating sequences in a time

each cycle is similar

to a poem with meter and rhyme

yet each word

and then each separate line

contribute to the finale

and the overall design.

© rt tulley