Changes: Next Exit

"Change we can believe in"-Barack Obama

"Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, turn and face the strange"- David Bowie

"The times they are a changin'" - Bob Dylan

"Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix" - Christina Baldwin

"Nothing endures but change."- Heraclitus

Change is something we deal with every second of every day. We have to go from one activity to the next, one place to the next. Time is changing, the weather is always changing. But like the weather sometimes change is for the better. Sometimes change is exactly what we need, it's the kick in the pants motivation, it's a heads up caution, it's a slap in the face reality check... So many people talk about change, our president ran on change, which is ironic, because by definition an election means change, no explanation required Mr. Obama! Even Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher already 2,500 years deceased knew the importance of change. Nothing lasts forever, but that is not a statement of cynicism like so many broken-hearted people make it, quite contrary, nothing lasts forever because everything is always changing. Not all changes are so permanent as death, but even in death things change.

Things that survive are things that can adapt to change.

So here's to the valiant, the brave, the courageous who not only accept Change's existence but embrace it, to those who live by the seat of their pants and never let and opportunity pass them by, I salute you.

-MB