"Courage and Change"

We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die.
W.H. Auden

How often do we find ourselves at a crossroad - unsure about which path to take? A simple choice may seem unbearably significant especially as we allow ourselves to become stuck in the intersection.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
Euripides, Hecuba

Caution must be employed,
especially as it appears
in the form of
intentional consideration.

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but Mutability.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Make that call. Write that letter. Measure once and cut twice. Spill out paint when a brush won't do. Fill the bird feeders. Go see both movies. Move your lips when you read.

Images:

1. "Chaos and Order: Stop"© 2009

Watercolor on paper

2. "Chaos and Order: Caution"© 2009

Watercolor on paper

3."Chaos and Order: Go"© 2009

Watercolor on paper

Paintings by Tom Schulz

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"Trouble With Change"© 2010

Video Sketch

From "The Systemic Amazement Factorial"©

Do you have trouble with change, human?

Next: Courage and Acceptance

"Red States, Blue States"

When the blue states this, and the red states that, then there becomes an overlapping of estates. This is the ruling of the grid. When a belief system becomes an affront to new beliefs, then it winds itself into barbed wire - that which is kept out then, becomes akin to that which is kept in. Osmosis is a funny, funny, phenomenon.

We are always on the eve of change.