A cold winter day

Looking out on a cold winter day.  The trees bereft of leaves, the ground frozen and seemingly barren.  Winter encourages a comparison with the other seasons and encourages a view of transformation and change that is part and parcel of our existence. We can not have a stable, steady life without change, any more than there can be day without night.

Part of our maturation and growth unfolds from the genetic blueprint encoded in our DNA, a blueprint that is reconstructed anew, changed and transformed from each set of parents to each child. The uniqueness of each physical being, the composition of proteins, the size and shape of each bone and muscle, the neural network of each brain and nervous system is based on a long evolutionary chain of challenge and test.  Of traits that remain and of traits that are removed from the blueprint.

So too is it that our choices lead us toward some possible futures and away from others.  Every choice leading down one path, leaving behind another.  Sometimes our choices are based on decisions that are too exclusionary, too dogmatic, decisions that unnecessarily take us too close to the things we choose to align with, and move us too far away from the things we have purposely or unmindfully excluded from our lives.  Like the forces of tectonic plates which shift and slide among one another, there is a natural tendency for our choices to re-align, for our beliefs to adjust to the past excesses of earlier intentions, those “I’ll nevers”  or “I’ll only’s” that made sense in the heat of a particular passion but which, over time, can be seen in a clearer light.

Transformation allows for a resetting of intentions and, conversely, a resetting of intentions allows for transformation and growth.  Recalibration brings you closer to those things which you’ve pushed away, and allows you to adjust your course to move away from those things that no longer serve you.

12/31/2017