Location: Galactic Quadrant Alpha, in the Neutral Zone
Status: Polarity reversed = Things Have Changed
With a Vulcan salute that we all live long and prosper, this is my Treknobabble way of posting that my status has changed.
To clarify, the blogger jackierwalburnwrites is happily back to being a writer, editor, communicator, etc. seeking opportunities and being an everyday would-be author about to finish the first draft of her first novel. Another change that comes with change: updating this blog more than twice in 10 months.
“That’s all I have to say about that.” -- Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump.
In honor of these changes, let me quote some thoughts on change from some smart and thoughtful folks.
“There is no wrong way to change, if it is in the right direction.” – Winston Churchill
“Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“We change whether we like it or not.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The key to change is to let go of fear.” – Roseanne Cash
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.” – Serenity prayer, Reinhold Niebuhr
“We cannot change our past. We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.” – Charles Swindoll
“Things do not change; we change.” – Henry David Thoreau
“We fear change.” Garth Algar, Wayne’s World
“Change is the only constant.” – Proverbs
“Change is the essential process of all existence.” -- Spock, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", stardate 5730.2
“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.” – Benjamin Franklin
Now, being the music nerd I am, I will offer these music quotes regarding changesonejackie:
“Still don't know what I was waiting for
And my time was running wild
A million dead-end streets and
Every time I thought I'd got it made
It seemed the taste was not so sweet
So I turned myself to face me
But I've never caught a glimpse
Of how the others must see the faker
I'm much too fast to take that test
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes Turn and face the strange (Ch-ch-Changes)
Don't want to be a richer man
Ch-ch-ch-ch-Changes Turn and face the strange (Ch-ch-Changes)
Just gonna have to be a different man
Time may change me But I can't trace time”
--Changes, changesonebowie, David Bowie
“I'm Gonna Make A Change, For Once In My Life
It's Gonna Feel Real Good, Gonna Make A Difference
Gonna Make It Right . . .
I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways
And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place
Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change”
--Man in the Mirror, Michael Jackson
“Well he's tellin' us this
And he's tellin' us that
Changes it every day
Say's it doesn't matter
Bases are loaded and Casey's at bat
Playin' it play by play
Time to change the batter”
--Rocky Mountain Way, Joe Walsh
“Its these changes in latitudes, changes in attitudes
Nothing remains quite the same
With all of our running and all of our cunning
If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane”
--Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, Jimmy Buffett
Also: These Times They Are A’Changin’ by guess who? (not the Guess Who), A Change Will Do You Good by Sheryl Crow, and I’m Just an Old Chunk of Coal, (but I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Some Day) by Billy Joe Shaver (previously quoted at jackierwalburnwrites, as Shaver is all that, and we will both be a diamond one day.)
But, the song of the day I choose on this posting about change is Things Have Changed by Bob Dylan.
For fellow music nerds, this song won an Academy award as best song for a movie, Wonder Boys, and can be found on The Essential Bob Dylan two-CD set.
This song – applicable lines quoted here -- has served me well, and once again, Dylan says it best.
Things Have Changed, By Bob Dylan
“A worried man with a worried mind
No one in front of me and nothing behind
……
Standing on the gallows with my head in a noose
Any minute now I’m expecting all hell to break loose
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
This place ain’t doing me any good
I’m in the wrong town, I should be in Hollywood
Just for a second there I thought I saw something move
Gonna take dancing lessons, do the jitterbug rag
Ain’t no shortcuts, gonna dress in drag
Only a fool in here would think he’s got anything to prove
Lot of water under the bridge, lot of other stuff too
Don’t get up gentlemen, I’m only passing through
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
I’ve been walking forty miles of bad road
If the Bible is right, the world will explode
I’ve been trying to get as far away from myself as I can
Some things are too hot to touch
The human mind can only stand so much
You can’t win with a losing hand
…….
People are crazy and times are strange
I’m locked in tight, I’m out of range
I used to care, but things have changed
PS:
If interested, here is link to You Tube, Things Have Changed video, featuring the movie’s stars and a sandwich-eating, distracted-driving, guitar-toting Dylan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9EKqQWPjyo
Peace out.
Picture of the day:
Fiery sunset at our Wild Kingdom camphouse
seems to glow orange and blue. WDE
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