Snow on the Road

I feel as though my life has not slowed down or taken a break in a few years.  It always seems like it is just on the brink on another change.  Today my worksite announced more changes.  I will have my third new boss and a new area since November (only 2 months ago).  Constant Change.  Changing Constantly.  When does it stop?

Maybe that's the trick.  To understand that motion isn't really movement at all.  Its just the background noise for lack of a better term.  Accept the fact that everything will be different tomorrow.  Constant change.  It will always be different.  You can count on it being different everday.  It is realiable and unfailing.  So what do we do about it?

I would love to break away from my current job.  I start my first Masters' class at UMass Boston on Tuesday.  It's part of the school of Dispute Resolution.  The class is titled Negotiation.  I eagerly await the subject matter.  The last class I took was a digital photography class.  That class opened a new horizon for me.

Maybe embracing change is about discovering something new in life.  Since it is always new, there is always something to discover.  Life doesn't end, it just keeps going.

One of my family members recently passed away.  I found comfort in this piece of writing:

Life is Eternal

I am standing upon the seashore.  A ship at my side spreads her white sails to the morning breeze and starts for the blue ocean.  She is an object of beauty and strength and I stand and watch her until at length she hangs like a speck of cloud just where the sea and sky mingle together.  Then someone at my side says: "There!  She's gone."  Gone where?  Gone from my sight... That is all.  She is just as large in mast and hull and spar as when she left my side, and just as able to bear her load to her port of destination.  Her diminished size is in me, not in her; and just at that moment when someone at my side says, "There!  She's gone," there are other eyes watching her arrival and other voices ready to take up the glad shout:  "Here she comes!"