{"id":226,"date":"2014-07-30T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2014-09-01T15:38:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T19:38:55","slug":"stopping-as-a-way-of-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Stopping as a Way of Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\" cellspacing=\"10\" bgcolor=\"#000000\">\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" bgcolor=\"99CC99\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div align=\"center\">\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/patrick1w.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"246\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Patrick Power has left.<\/p>\n<p>Chronicler. Visionary. Web Guru. Wild Man.<\/p>\n<p>He jumped into Niagara Falls. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/psunsetw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>And was gone.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/picyw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"270\" height=\"405\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/pflowerw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"224\" height=\"170\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/pspoonw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"224\" height=\"170\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Many no longer notice the sky and stars, <br \/>\nthe wind and light and shadow, <br \/>\nthe creatures and the creaking poles,<br \/>\nthe electric flare and the mechanical doodad.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/psidewalkw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"224\" height=\"170\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/pmicw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"224\" height=\"170\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Patrick noticed. He was always looking, seeing.<\/p>\n<p>He never saw the same thing twice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/pclouds1.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>He took thousands of photographs and videos.<\/p>\n<p>He saw the things that others missed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/pshadow.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>And considered their energy, their presence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/plittlefriendw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/pcornfieldw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>In the year before he left, he wrote of these things:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/psmokew.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><i><em>\u201cThe false binary of creation destruction.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/plightsw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/Procks013006.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><i><em>Matter never created or destroyed.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/ptreesskyw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"420\" height=\"249\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><i><em>It comes from a higher place. It changes as it falls.<\/p>\n<p>This is constant.&#8221;<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/psparksw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/picew.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"232\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/pjellyfishw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>He wrote this too:<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<i><em>\u201cFoolishness as the ancestor of wisdom.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/pdogwall081306.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/pblizzard2.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"248\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><i><em>Stopping as a way of moving forward.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/ptreelightw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><i><em>Circles moving within circles moving within circles.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/priograndew.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><i><em>The evolutionary narrative.<\/em><\/i> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/pstepsw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"270\" height=\"405\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><i><em>The endless mystery as it unravels across time and space.<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/psnowbreathw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i><em>These things never happened <br \/>\nbut always were.\u201d<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/psnowtreew.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/pdawnstairsw.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.surfingthespectacle.com\/images\/uploads\/ppwallights3091904.jpg\" border=\"10\" alt=\"image\" name=\"image\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Power has left. Chronicler. Visionary. Web Guru. Wild Man. He jumped into Niagara Falls. And was gone. Many no longer notice the sky and stars, the wind and light and shadow, the creatures and the creaking poles, the electric flare and the mechanical doodad. Patrick noticed. He was always looking, seeing. He never saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfingthespectacle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}