At just 16 years old, Harper is an aspiring storyteller who is always metaphorically-speaking. She shares with us a little about her experience here.
One of my favorite quotes is “Nothing ever stays the same — be it a second or a hundred years later, it’s always rolling and changing. People change as much as oceans do.” That’s from Neil Gaiman’s book Ocean at the End of the Lane.
One of the overarching ideas in the book is that people change — it's how we know that we’re alive. We also have the ability to change the people around us. A lot of it can be connected back to this metaphor of dropping a pebble into the lake. Even though it's just a single pebble, when it hits, it makes ripples. And those ripples will bounce into other ripples from other pebbles, and those ripples together are different than what they were before. It's as if we are all pebbles dropping into the lake, changing together.
At EXPLO, we're a variety of pebbles dropping into a small pond: shale, charcoal, onyx, diamond, quartz...dripping and dropping, plipping and plopping in these different places and in different ways. We all change each other in these subtle little ways. The changes may not last, but that doesn’t mean that the memories go away. And sometimes, when you need them, those memories rise back up to the surface.
Jill Luoma-Overstreet