The majority of the posts have a collective interconnecting
theme : " TRANSFORMATION "
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I will explore this occurrence called change :
Why ittsa A verb !! AND a noun !!
An action AND an act.
A mighty big switcheroony.
Loose coins.
A Re-examination & a Rebuilding of standards
A Modification ; to modify
A Reconstruction ; to reconstruct
Evolution + Metamorphosis = voila'
A Revolution (U Say U Wanna)
A village in Nepal whose vision is to ensure the rights of children, minors, & women
An order in which a peal of bells can be rung
A process + an end result = to become something way different
OR : Simply, a choice.
A pause. A gap. An opening for a break in continuity.
A small cranny in which light can radiate through.
An interruption in robotic-head-less-ness.
A hindrance of the automaton.
A discontinuation of the predictably ho-hummmm mmmmmonotonous. zzzzzz.
Stopping the old way. Beginning a new day.
A coming of an End to a starting of re-newed Anew.
The art of the Letting Go to a knew-found awareness
of Being "pow" completely inside The "wow" Now.
Life chapter type major changes :
birth, marriage, divorce, moving, death, freedom.
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“The only constant in life is change.”
- Heraclitus, Persian 6th century BC.
“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” ― Heraclitus
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
- Dr. Seuss
“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” -Rosa Parks
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity." – Amelia Earhart
“Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
– George Addair
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I'm possible! “
– Audrey Hepburn
“You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”
- Timothy Lear
“Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels."
- Tom Robbins
“Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.”- Abraham Verghese
“It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.” - Edgar Degas
“Whether you think you can
or you think you can't,
you're right.”
- Henry Ford
“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." ― Albert Einstein
“For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock.” — James Baldwin
“Every person we meet has the potential to change our lives forever." - Tom Robbins
“The times they Are a Changin’ “ - Bob Dylan
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Change is here to stay, yet we fight change,
avoiding it as much as possible.
Our fear of change consistently keeps walls in place.
We seem to prefer consistency, boring routines, sameness, and continually operating on a level of low analytical type thinking.
Never examining why we do certain unexplainable things.
And more importantly, why do we believe certain viewpoints which are merely opinions, prejudices, and judgments.
These are only amorphous nebulose vacuous vaporous thoughts.
Our strange preferences. Our perplexing habits.
Our baffling set-in-rock-solid-stone belief systems. Our modis operandi.
Our remote controlled auto pilot controls in how we view the world.
Our ruts.
We “half asleep in frog pajamas”* Thank you Tom. Ribbit. Yawn. zzz.
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What a difference to function otherwise :
just uno-once :
giv- itta try :
question falsely held really ? why ? do I think this ? & why the heck do i do that ?? beliefs ( belief : stance, standpoint, hypothesis, assumption, notion, speculation, and literally, an outright guess/guesswork.)
experiment incrementally babystepping to fresh un-known ewww...strange to yew ... knew ways
sip upon light fragrant golden ginger wow tea instead of murky tar thick black coffee ...
mixing it up a bit with your day to day to day to day,
to day, Today !! Hurray.
wear a bright color & not the one size fits all-along-
-with-everybody-else ba ba black sheep blahhblack
paint only one just one of your many many blank ghostly pale white walls a bright color & see what joy it emits & is emitted upon you.
take the initiative & reach out say hello to a long ago once lost friend
listen to some old music from long ago that you once knew : the Pink Panther, Peter Gunn, Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Durante, Jimi, Janis, oh so many
just because you’ve always done it that way isn’t a good enough reason to continue carrying on with being so hard headedly stubborn, doofussie, negative, petty, or whine-knee. ( as I have been known to do )
there are so many other ways to radiate, relate, emanate...
*** & ILLUMINATE.
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*Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. a book by Tom Robbins
* (cover art ) "Vote McGovern" an iconic artwork by Andy Warhol
viewed at SanFrancisco's Museum of Modern Art