For the record, for a long time I thought I didn’t have the words for what I was going through. But looking back at the words I actually wrote (you know–privately & stuff), there’s actually a much better picture than I thought.

I’m better now at articulating my thoughts and feelings than I once was precisely b/c I let myself articulate them anyway (albeit mainly privately…& stuff).

I appreciate you coming out from under cover of darkness to leave this particular comment. Best thanks I could ever get. So thank you…and you are very, very welcome!

I tried writing a comment a couple of different times, before realizing I just don’t have the words for what’s going on with me…except to say that the quote above tells a lot of the story. I’m fighting change — trying to be the rock in the river instead of the reed…and you know what happens to rocks in rivers? They get worn down into sand. But the reed bends without breaking.

While I came here from the Remarkable Communication blog, I found something else here I guess I needed: to be reminded about What Change Looks Like. Thanks.

Ingrid - Any friend of the fabulous Neilochka’s, etc! And ditto for friends of change: that support group can never get big enough.

Angie - I’m guessing you have a pretty healthy attitude towards change. Just guessing.

Miss Syl - Well, sure: hold up her writing against mine and of course she looks like one of America’s greatest writers.

Because of the routines we follow, we often forget that life is an ongoing adventure. We leave our homes for work, acting and even believing that we will reach our destinations with no unusual event startling us out of our set expectations. The truth is we know nothing, not where our cars will fail or when buses will stall, whether our places of employment will be there when we arrive, or whether, in fact, we ourselves will arrive whole and alive at the end of our journeys. Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art: to bring all our energies to each encounter, to remain flexible enough to notice and admit when what we expected to happen did not happen. We need to remember that we are created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

Maya Angelou
from Wouldn’t Take Nothing for my Journey Now

Change can be very strange and yet soooo good!