Comments on: How to Embrace Change

By: Jenn aka Future Mama

Jenn aka Future Mama — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:49:14 +0000

I hope to make a BIG change this year… Maybe try to make a baby! I’m scared though, and that’s all I’ve been thinking about lately. It’s scary to go from being just a woman to being a mother, but I’m excited!

By: adam

adam — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:43:20 +0000

“Your poem describes the drama of my life, I think.” More than yours or mine, I think, which makes me tremble to read it. Personally I would tremble if I’d written one or two lines of it.

For the wind to make the rock tremble and still be a rock, is that the goal?

I know someone doing a lot of changing and praying lately – trembling before the Spirit, as it were. You may know the Hebrew word for spirit is “ruach,” which (of course) is also the word for “wind.”

By: Todd Jordan

Todd Jordan — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:04:04 +0000

Accepting change is something that we can talk about way easier than actually do. I’ve told myself before that I’m preparing for change, but often I’m preparing for the practical and not accepting the emotional side of that change.

This is a good reminder to realize that change does happen, is happening, and will happen, and the sooner we embrace it the better off we are.

Cheers.

By: Practical Mommy

Practical Mommy — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:46:56 +0000

p.s. “To be steady as a rock and always trembling.” Is that the “strength” that we are looking for, in ourselves and our mirrors? Your poem describes the drama of my life, I think. And the challenge of simply experiencing it (vs. examining it).

By: Practical Mommy

Practical Mommy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:53:21 +0000

You are full of insight, as usual and thank you for re-orienting my compass to “the journey,” like the enjoyment of a good book. It’s my nature to rush to the end, like you said, to want to know the outcome. But if we are to embrace the metaphor… when I’m done with a good book, I suffer from withdrawal and want the sequel or to be back in the middle when I DIDN’T know the end.

For the kids, watch Nemo:
“How do you know when they’re ready?”
“You never really know, you know?”

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:55:35 +0000

For one, I can stop self-layering, and hesitating. I’m constantly committing the “knowing the outcome” sin; if I do it to myself, you can bet I’m doing it to my kids. Thank you for this post, PM!

I love D.U.’s Anais Nin reference, to the necessary blossoming, but I love even more the W.E.B. Du Bois quote. It reminds me of a line in one of my favorite poems of all time, “Trees,” (http://ecoflourish.com/Inspiration/Trees_Nemerov.html) by Howard Nemerov:

“To stand for the constant presence of process
And always to seem the same;”

“The” leap is really a series of leaps, is it not? It is less the landing point than the act of leaping itself that ensures our constant spryness. To keep leaping, to BE the leap we wish to see, as it were. As I was born February 29th, I feel qualified enough. As always, the process, not the product.

For the hometown fans, by the way, Howard Nemerov taught at Wash U in St. Louis.