Small Investments in the Continuing Composition

I was sitting in my little workroom when a towel that had been hung over the shower curtain rail since the previous morning suddenly slipped down and dropped gently to the floor. Though up to this point it had appeared to me to be still and unchanging, the forces leading up to this final and seemingly jagged action had in fact been present and progressing all along, patiently mounting their attack, adding in some small way throughout to the richness of the whole. This final action was simply an investment waiting for its moment of realization, until then just another unnoticed part of the whole mechanism of the fluid and continuing composition.