When you look around your bathroom you'll probably find plenty of tiles. Rigidly aligned. Precision cut. Regularly distributed. It may also be true of your kitchen. And many floors in your house. That's certainly true of the house in which I live.
Patterns that conform. Tiles of equal size and identical shape; regularly shaped and recurring patterns have many advantages.
Patterns can help us organise, and plan, and predict, and explain, and design; pattens are fundamental to life. And our lives.
But these kinds of patterns we typically see around our homes don't mirror our lives which are full of unequal-sized pieces. Pieces that overlap. Pieces that need to get squeezed and molded. Pieces that are partially erased. Pieces that need to resize and reshape in order to survive. These are patterns we most find in nature.
It's the patterns of nature that I try most to use when I am thinking about my life.
This morning walking the beach I meditated on what I could learn from the patterns in the sand; maybe it's worth checking the natural patterns around your home to see if they can be useful in planning, organising, and living your life.
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