Essay 1 Image Rough Draft

A rainbow image will appear as a mirror image in the voluminous down fall of this water.
So, how do you create a magic moment or describe an image or modeling of language to someone as if their blindfolded, I would do it something like this…
This water is sometimes called cataracts that arise from an abrupt steepening of a river channel which causes the flow of water to drop vertically into a good size body of water. A waterfall is characterized as a great erosive power with a downward flow.
Another option is to just hand them a book without any words just pictures…Waterfalls offer a unique opportunity although I have been told they are a more challenging image to capture a picture of. Their image gives me a gentle attitude with an aggressive natural look that is strong and forceful.
Some of the most beautiful places on earth are the mountains of western North Carolina where there are miles and miles of hundreds of waterfalls, most high up in the mountains that you have to hike to see. The rocks are slippery and you wouldn’t want to attempt to climb the ones around the waterfalls, or cross the streams or swim at the top of a waterfall it is too dangerous.
I still remember the Catawba Falls it’s a very steep tricky goat trail down to the base of the lower drop, as you come to the creek crossing where you get your feet wet there are fallen trees with big rocks which make it a bit easier to cross. At the base there is another trail heading up the right side of the waterfall that is very steep but gives you a closer view of parts of the waterfall it is an amazing as it cascades for more than 100 feet. Look for the rope part way up as well as solid roots and rocks to hold onto they will assist the hike. Keep in mind though going down is trickier than coming up, I use to go every year and hoped that they would build a trail that swings around which would make the access to the upper fall much safer.
Although, since I was a teenager Wachlella Falls in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon has been my favorite. It’s usually not very crowded and one of the most beautiful in this area, there are many good view points of these falls but my preference is from up high where you see the water plunge down into the canyon into fountains of pools. There is also a huge cave behind the waterfall which gives it a dark shadow, mysterious feel with a steep canyon background a thundering sound of the water hitting bottom and it is all well worth the hike and the view. The sound of this waterfall you can hear from a mile away, the splashing water you feel as if you were standing in front of it.
What is the meaning of a waterfall, a rebirth that offers a rejuvenating cleansing or a dream interpretation of falling water that is a phenomenon of water flowing in a river channel encountering a vertical drop. The deeper meaning of a waterfall is the dream interpretation I mentioned which one becomes curious of this mass water and goes after it or pursues it and it is not going to last a long time till the next downfall and it will end abruptly to me this is the image of a waterfall.
For instance, I ask you to remember the word “waterfall” you automatically envision a mental image of a waterfall. But, suppose you didn’t have that mental image to envision you would need to rely on my efforts to identify the mental image for you. So, I will continue doing this with my words as I have been above.
There are definitely much smaller images of waterfalls then what I have displayed in my interpretation and descriptions, these are called cascades and these are waterfalls that are lesser steepness and smaller in height traveling down the same type of river channel and encounters a vertical drop in the channel bed just as a more massive waterfall would. There are many shapes and sizes of waterfalls or these massive downward flows of water but everyone fits either of two categories the first is a river waterfall which it wider than tall and handles a high volume of water and never goes dry. The other is a steam waterfall found on a mountain stream it is higher than it is wide, its flow is small to medium and it does go dry during certain months of the year. Whichever type the waterfall the features is what gives the significant image and description of a waterfall.
A waterfall to me is calming, spectacular, magnificent, powerful and breathtaking, even majestically tranquil and peaceful if you will, but it is continuous as it tumbles, spills and cascades like an intense freedom of water with a sound that is roaring, thunderous, loud and pounding as it rushes down with force.
There is a mystical amusement a waterfall represents to me, an exuberance that is an uninhibited outpour of creative energy that celebrates life. I dream of them, have passion for them, my interpretation is a magic melody of mother nature that at times gives an excitement of emotional overwhelm but yet a subtle touch of comfort. This is the significant connection waterfalls have to my identity and sense of self. There are also so many dimensions to a waterfall as well as myself, spiritually searching for peace and finding it within a waterfall it has time and rhythm which is my connection to earth. All my experiences in life I can portray as a huge waterfall recording my life events as a waterfall paves its path of its life I shall as well through my life. There is a strong healing that a moving waterfall has that is so realistic and similar to my-self healing of mind and body from its soothing sounds of nature that calms and relaxes me. These are reasons I can see myself mirrored as a waterfall in a euphoric feeling. Waterfalls are competent, capable; they are responsible in their collaboration much the same way my sense of self is to me. They have a strength and optimism of possibilities which provokes their movement, change, power, flow, potential, creativity and freedom just as I have in myself identity.
Waterfalls have central frameworks similar to myself, they are natural and build environments that are connected to the past and present the same way I am.
I believe in the meaning of waterfall dreaming…I interpretate it an emotional release, a fulfillment of deserving what you are wishing for. The meaning to me represents an unconscious emotion that is positive but suggesting to cleanse psychological issues which is what the water of the waterfall represents to me. This cleansing makes me think of a new beginning a fresh start a new surface or identity. I also feel waterfall dreams bring a sign of fierce passion which is what the water also reflects a longing and yearning in your heart. As though you really want something but you can’t have it. These waterfall dreams are symbolic to letting go of pent up emotions and negative feelings and going for your goals and secure your desires as you heal energies within. These are powerful feelings and emotions, that draw energy with beauty and grace in changing way that expresses emotion.
These gentle flowing waters in your dreams of waterfalls signify contentment and peace of mind; you will stop drifting and feel the movement of energy as you visualize it pouring through you from your head out your feet. This is also where I see waterfalls that others may not which is why I carefully described what it is in my dreams waterfalls bring to me so I could share them in this writing.
I conclude with my image of the significance of waterfalls as being tied to a backdrop or a wall of historic and cultural significance that gives natural lighting that has simplicity of a diminished impact which are pooled together by streams and brooks running down mountains bubbling and roaring sounds that surround our souls on a journey of paradise. Uninterrupted the splashing water is a steady path and endless rhythm; this is a meaning of a natural course of a stream or narrow stretch of water between two larger bodies of water giving a path or passage of the soul from this world to a better one. There is a true quality of the waterfall, I believe a fulfillment of the soul through its fall or passage to heaven. There is a significance of a waterfalls goal compared to the goal of a person’s mortal life. A waterfall paints a scene so perfectly a moment captured.
My journey in life is still a discovery of possibilities just as similar to that of a waterfall, I simply lofe the sight sound and relaxation a waterfall brings me.

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