pinwheels

As we were walking around a beautiful old university campus near the river the other day, I kept praying for change. For the windows to be opened and fresh air to rush into places long stale. Change. I couldn't help thinking of a conversation i had with a local friend recently, at a traditional new years flower market: Besides flowers, many people were buying forms of paper and foil pinwheels- and my friend informed me that according to their tradition, if you were not satisfied with your life situation you would buy a pinwheel- to represent movement and change. However, if you were satisfied with your life and circumstances you should not purchase one because you want your fortune to remain at rest. The symbolism shared with me in that conversation came back to me again and again as i prayed for the campus and the city. I felt like i was holding a pinwheel in my heart for this place. As i wandered around lifting these thoughts to God, i stopped here and there to scrawl the word change here and there around the grounds. These pictures are sort of a transcript of my pinwheel prayers.