Five Minute Friday
Prompt: Repeat
Our solar system pulses with rhythm. Every 365 days, we make a turn around the dance floor, spinning all the way. Ever in a hurry, Mercury makes the trip in 88 days, while Pluto takes 248 years. (Perhaps Pluto’s pace explains why cosmologists decided it no longer deserved the title of “planet”).
Today, I looked out of my office window and beheld a tree dressed with fire. She clothed herself this way last year too, celebrating the fall gala. Yet even amidst the rhythmicity, this year is entirely unique. The leaves’ arrangement approximates, yet does not copy, last year’s gown.
What a wonderful world where rhythm’s repetition still manages to make things brand new.
This post is part of the 5-minute Friday linkup.
Jason Kanz 
I love the idea of repetition makes things brand new. Beautiful piece. – #19 Paula Frances
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Hi Jason, I’m at #46 in the FMF linkup. Really enjoyed your post: “a tree dressed with fire” – that’s beautiful. Your words made me think of a passage in Chesterton’s Orthodoxy where he says God must really enjoy making the world anew each day because that he takes delight in repetition the way children do.
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