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Chris's Parent's Prayer Wheel: "Life's a River Trip"

I made this wheel as an ode of love and admiration to my parents. It celebrates the joyfully passionate lives they lead. Circling the wheel is a rolling river on which a rubber raft floats. My father, a river rat and geologist--in the tradition of John Wesley Powell, pulls lustily on the oars. My mother--a poet, musician and nature lover, sits on the bow playing her recorder. Music from her instrument rises and floats around the wheel. The notes hearken back to those lazy-river days when her music sang down canyons on family raft trips. Beneath the river I carved geologic strata--like my father drew on his maps to describe the earth's story. Along the shore, three bears run pell-mell. They are struggling and failing to keep pace with the raft. This echoes the ways my two siblings and I still strive to follow where are parents lead.