chchch changes
Change can be seamless and other times change appears as if it's your surprise birthday party.
When it comes to writing about change, I can’t help sing David Bowie’s song (chchch) Changes….Turn and face the strange….
It’s the defining decades, years goneby, month cycles, day to days, hours that pass, minutes to go and just seconds where changes are happening anytime…anywhere.
I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence
And so the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same-Bowie
I also have my Aunty Kin’s voice reminding me ‘ the only constancy in life is change ‘ . She rings true in my ears every time I get bowled over with life rolling me along. Throwing me into the unknown future. Detailed planning seems good for some things, but generally a loose plan often allows for the serendipidous….I enjoy being surprised into another way of thinking, being and experiencing. Often even when I get disappointed that someone has changed plans on me last minute. Lets see what the day brings.
I am much more accepting and embracing the big changes that are happening in my physical body nowadays. I find it fascinating that cancer has been a reset for my whole system and alot has changed. Replacing old with the new has been generally for the better. Allowing my state of health to determine my days. Feeling more at peace with myself and what my body offers me in the day.
Time may change me
But I can't trace time-Bowie
The past is a reflection rather than a reminsce as I don’t wish it to be like it was. Wishing things don’t change. Letting go of bygones is freedom. An indescribable lightness happens and plenty more room arrives to appreciate what is happening… right now.
“Leave everything in yesterday”
- music “Ottolenghi” by Loyle Carner
I could see your mind was changing
With the seasons shady for a reason (ah)
They will start decreasing
Leaving like the orange in the evening
It was creeping through the clouds
But now I'm proud to see the images releasing
I just wish the little lady could've seen it but she was dreaming-Loyle Carner
Then there is limitless time with no essential change. When doing something meaningful/enjoyable myself and being with someone dearest to me. Sharing and offering friendship and love is a timeless quality. It’s a constant within change. That’s the ripple effect of the limitless expansion of constancy in change.
I often see the steadfast sky, a backdrop for the spectacular show of changing clouds. Looking up reminds me of my awareness of everything, observing the changing cloud of stories in my mind and around. The comfort of cultivating a sky of awareness is my constant. Look out the window, as the sky and clouds are in their beauty always for you to be…as they are…as you are.
