Create no images of God. Accept the images that God has provided. They are everywhere, in everything. God is Change — Seed to tree, tree to forest; Rain to river, river to sea; Grubs to bees, bees to swarm. From one, many; from many, one; Forever uniting, growing, dissolving — forever Changing. The universe is God’s self-portrait. | |
― Octavia E. Butler | |
From her book: “Parable of the Sower“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | An Honorable Preference |
2021 | Very Young Or Very New |
Feelin’ It | |
2020 | Or To Destroy Democracy |
2019 | A Defense Of Liberty |
2018 | And Blog To Word Up To The Universe |
The Irony Of Greed | |
2017 | Or Revisiting A Blog Site |
2016 | Alas, Too Often The Latter |
2015 | Either / Or |
2014 | Memorial Day – 2014 |
Perfection | |
2013 | Memorial Day Video |
Equal = Equal | |
2012 | Congrats, Nephew!! |
Doggie Vision Networks | |
The Flash: Omnibus | |
JLI: vol 1 | |
Flash: Rebirth | |
Burning Images | |
What Do You Believe? | |
2011 | Are We Still At War With The Poor? |
Posts Tagged ‘Change’
Images Are Everywhere
Posted in Faith, Faith Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Change, God, Images, Octavia E. Butler, Parable Of The Sower, Philosophy, Quotes, Universe on May 26, 2023| Leave a Comment »
Decrease Your Limits To Increase Your Rates
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Change, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Failure, Fear, Limits, Philosophy, Quotes, Success, Thomas J. Watson on January 6, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new. | |
― Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia | |
If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. | |
― Thomas J. Watson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Defeated: So Far (Anyway) |
2021 | Elections Have Consequences |
It’s Cold Way Down There | |
2020 | Fearless Security |
2019 | I Prefer A Neat Single Malt |
2018 | Seeking Finer Fruits |
2017 | Something That Is Absolute |
2016 | Animate And Encourage |
Out Of Time | |
2015 | In Time |
2014 | Robust Interconnectivity |
2013 | What Have We Here? |
2012 | Tributaries And Eddies |
An Honest Politician | |
2011 | Penultimate |
Stubbornly Change
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Change, Future, Larry Wall, Past, Philosophy, Present, Quotes on November 25, 2022| Leave a Comment »
You can’t change the past. You can’t even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives. | |
― Larry Wall | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Happy Thanksgiving (2021)! |
When You Get Where You’re Going | |
2020 | Still In School |
The First Deuce | |
Escape From Planet Junkyard | |
2019 | Will John Bolton Testify? |
2018 | Just Maybe |
2017 | Police In My Review Mirror |
2016 | Full And Rich |
2015 | Go Deeper |
2014 | Intentional Mapping |
2013 | The Sweet Path |
2012 | Living Free And Abolition |
Morning Wood | |
2011 | I Resemble That Remark |
Free To Become
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Change, Choice, Decisions, Freedom, Man's Search for Meaning, Philosophy, Quotes, Viktor E. Frankl on October 31, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant. | |
― Viktor E. Frankl | |
From: “Man’s Search for Meaning“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Why I Play The Lottery |
C’mon And Dream Along | |
2020 | #45 In A Nutshell |
Old Man Wishin’… | |
2019 | Three Down, Three To Go |
2018 | Too Significant |
2017 | Shadows |
2016 | Still Blurry |
2015 | For Awhile Anyway |
2014 | By Contrast |
2013 | A Very Long Time… |
2012 | Raise And Support |
2011 | Naturally |
2010 | A Quick Sunday Morning Read |
Giants Win Game 4 In Shutout 4 to 0!!! | |
Sculpted Souls Can Change The World
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Change, Education, Joseph Addison, Marble, Nelson Mandela, Philosophy, Quotes, Sculpture, Souls, Weapons on September 27, 2022| Leave a Comment »
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. | |
— Joseph Addison | |
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. | |
— Nelson Mandela | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | An Impossible Situation |
I Fear It Is (For Us If Not The Planet) | |
2020 | #45 Never Shuts Up |
Walkin’ In The Rain With The One I Love | |
2019 | Silly Pooh Bear |
Dominoes Or Jenga? | |
2018 | Very Few |
2017 | Or The Candidate Who… |
2016 | The Happiest People |
2015 | Jumping Into The Dark |
2014 | I Would Be Sillier |
2013 | It Keeps Happening Anyway |
2012 | Take Time |
2011 | A Mother’s Lesson |
2010 | 3rd Pair – Shoe Review (DOA and Final) |
…The More Things Stay The Same
Posted in History, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Abraham Lincoln, Change, Dogmas, History, Philosophy, Quotes on August 31, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. | |
— Abraham Lincoln | |
[Does history repeat itself or is it simply that the more things change, the more things stay the same? — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | To Trust Providence |
Exactly | |
2020 | I Am Learning |
Plus Plus | |
2019 | Day 2: All Things Considered |
The Path To Reward | |
2018 | Ryan, McConnell & The Republican Controlled Congress |
The Proud Dad | |
Day 35: Five(5) Weeks Completed! | |
2017 | Serving Is Proving Harder Than Winning For #DumbDonald |
2016 | Come Again… |
2015 | At Five |
2014 | Touching The Past |
The Supreme Question | |
2013 | Children Will Judge |
2012 | Liar, n. |
2011 | Freedom To Doubt |
Sources Of Enthusiasm
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Change, Enthusiasm, Eric Hoffer, Mass Movements, Philosophy, Quotes, Self-Advancement, The True Believer on June 16, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Where self-advancement cannot, or is not allowed to, serve as a driving force, other sources of enthusiasm have to be found if momentous changes, such as the awakening and renovation of a stagnant society or radical reforms in the character and pattern of life of a community, are to be realized and perpetuated. Religious, revolutionary and nationalist movements are such generating plants of general enthusiasm. | |
— Eric Hoffer | |
From his book: “The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Sources Of Enthusiasm |
2021 | Start Reading / Start Building |
I Headed On Alone | |
2020 | Nurturing Trees And Plants |
2019 | Seeking Needs |
2018 | Not Sure Anyway… |
All Clear Nuclear And Burn | |
2017 | Forms Of Conservation |
2016 | Oh, So Lacking |
2015 | e pluribus unum |
2014 | Nothing So Far Removed |
2013 | Positions |
2012 | Two Errors |
2011 | Long Live The King! |
A Loss Of Happiness
Posted in Music, Other Blogs, Philosophy, Poetry, Quotes, tagged Art, Change, Charles Darwin, Delight, Happiness, https://www.themarginalian.org/, Music, Other Blogs, Other web sites, Philosophy, Quotes, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882 on December 8, 2021| Leave a Comment »
My mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years… Poetry of many kinds… gave me great pleasure… Pictures gave me considerable, and music very great delight… But now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry… Music generally sets me thinking too energetically on what I have been at work on, instead of giving me pleasure. I retain some taste for fine scenery, but it does not cause me the exquisite delight which it formerly did. | |
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature. | |
— Charles Darwin | |
From: “The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882“ | |
[Originally found at one of the blogs / websites I follow: https://www.themarginalian.org/ | |
The specific post is: https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/11/28/darwin-life/ | |
Please visit the original site if you have a some time… — kmab] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | A Loss Of Happiness |
Early Boy Band Choreography | |
2020 | Wear A Damn Mask! |
I Can’t Stay For Long | |
Boxing (#2): First Lessons | |
2019 | A Surprisingly Good Way |
It’s Official X-mas (Tree) At Home | |
2018 | Weight / Health Update |
What’s Happening With You? | |
2017 | The Great Leveler |
Conservative Depressions | |
2016 | Election + 1 Month |
2015 | Dance And Sing |
2014 | A Measuring Stick For Progress |
2013 | Courtly Love Or Victory Over Habit |
2012 | Have We Met? |
2011 | Efficiently Useless |
Little And Large Choices
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Attitude, Change, Choices, Happiness, Joy, Philosophy, Quotes, Thomas Kinkade on March 2, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Decide that Joy is the hue you want your heart to be. Then start making the little and large choices that over time will paint your heart happy. | |
— Thomas Kinkade | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | A Wonderful Tension |
2021 | Little And Large Choices |
I Got Something To Say | |
Alternate Reality | |
2020 | When? |
2019 | Two Guides |
2018 | A Call For You |
2017 | Because I Read |
2016 | On What Matters… |
2015 | Social Security |
2014 | Bewitching |
2013 | Visiting Joy |
2012 | Dedication To Today |
2011 | Project Second Chance – Adult Literacy |
Turning Coal Into Diamonds | |
First Thing Every Morning
Posted in Included Video, Lyrics, Music and Concerts, Philosophy, Quotes, Song Lyrics And Videos By Others, Videos, tagged Change, Included Video, Man In The Mirror -- music video, Michael Jackson, Philosophy, Quotes, Vevo, YouTube on February 28, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Man In The Mirror |
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Favorite Line(s): | |
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 want to make the world a better place | |
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | One Link In The Chain |
2021 | Life Measures |
First Thing Every Morning | |
2020 | Like #45 And Many Of His Supporters |
(Leap Year 29th) | With Some Epic Scenery Along The Way |
2019 | Creative Prayer Time |
ADF: Day 9:5 | |
2018 | #DumbDonald: Start With Hearing What You Don’t Want Said |
2017 | The Press Is NOT The Enemy |
2016 | It Ain’t Easy |
(Leap Year 29th) | Or Try To, Anyway… |
(Leap Year 29th) | Circles Within Circles |
2015 | A Series Of Funerals |
2014 | And Your Point Is? |
2013 | Infinitely Care |
2012 | In My Room |
(Leap Year 29th) | Stingray – TV Series Review (This is my most popular post since starting my blog – hands down! It still draws hits almost every week. The hits seem to come mostly from Central Europe. I guess the show must be in syndication there. // 2020 update: While this is still my all-time, most popular post, it is no longer being viewed every week – or even every month. I guess the show is no longer in syndication.) |
(Leap Year 29th) | A Single Thread |
2011 | Lyrical Mixture |
Teaching = Translating | |
Even Being President For Almost Four Years
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Change, Character, Circumstance, Philosophy, Quotes, Ralph Waldo Emerson on November 9, 2020| 2 Comments »
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. | |
— Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | Does Blogging Count? |
Another Notch | |
2020 | Even Being President For Almost Four Years |
#45: Crying About The American Voters | |
Dying Isn’t Much Of A Way To Make A Living Boy | |
2019 | And Autumnal Foliage |
2018 | Up Hill, Both Ways |
2017 | Trump Carnivores – The Revolution So Far |
2016 | Election Results |
2015 | Speak Louder |
2014 | Why I Frequently Give In |
2013 | Am Remembering |
2012 | Sustained Fear |
2011 | Commitment |
Risk Free
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Change, Dr. Leo F. Buscaglia, Freedom, Love, Philosophy, Quotes, Risk on July 27, 2020| Leave a Comment »
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free. | |
― Leo Buscaglia | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Speak Up / Call Out |
2018 | Does Smiling Count? |
2017 | Giving Much |
2016 | Sounds Like Class |
2015 | Inert Ideas |
2014 | Worth Anything? |
2013 | Bruises Before Bed (Or Why You Didn’t Answer) |
Revealed Riches | |
2012 | Extra Gears |
2011 | Say What? |
2010 | Hello Frogs… |
The Spirit Of A Fighter, The Heart Of A Saint
Posted in History, Leadership, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, tagged Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America, Change, Commitment To Change, Evil, Georgia, Good, History, Leadership, Light, Love, Philosophy, Politics, Quotes, RIP - John R. Lewis, Speak Up, Truth, U.S. Representative John Lewis on July 18, 2020| 2 Comments »
Rest In Peace: John R. Lewis | |
U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 5th congressional district | |
21 February 1940 – July 17, 2020 | |
You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone — any person or any force — dampen, dim or diminish your light. Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates. […] Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won. Choose confrontation wisely, but when it is your time don’t be afraid to stand up, speak up, and speak out against injustice. And if you follow your truth down the road to peace and the affirmation of love, if you shine like a beacon for all to see, then the poetry of all the great dreamers and philosophers is yours to manifest in a nation, a world community, and a Beloved Community that is finally at peace with itself. | |
― John Lewis | |
Take a long, hard look down the road you will have to travel once you have made a commitment to work for change. Know that this transformation will not happen right away. Change often takes time. It rarely happens all at once. In the movement, we didn’t know how history would play itself out. When we were getting arrested and waiting in jail or standing in unmovable lines on the courthouse steps, we didn’t know what would happen, but we knew it had to happen. | |
Use the words of the movement to pace yourself. We used to say that ours is not the struggle of one day, one week, or one year. Ours is not the struggle of one judicial appointment or presidential term. Ours is the struggle of a lifetime, or maybe even many lifetimes, and each one of us in every generation must do our part. And if we believe in the change we seek, then it is easy to commit to doing all we can, because the responsibility is ours alone to build a better society and a more peaceful world. | |
― John Lewis | |
Both quotes are from his book: “Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America“ | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Most Hire |
Just The Three Of Us | |
2018 | Sounds Like #45’s White House |
2017 | Have We Started Winning Yet? |
2016 | Still Springy |
2015 | Well Concealed |
2014 | The History Of Warriors |
2013 | A Cult Of Ignorance |
2012 | Counting Valor |
Understanding Faith | |
2011 | I Can Hear You Now |
2010 | Inception |
Make A Fuss
Posted in Faith Family and Friends, Family and Friends, Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Change, Elizabeth Janeway, Faith and Family, Happy Birthday James, Philosophy, Quotes on April 7, 2020| Leave a Comment »
If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world. | |
— Elizabeth Janeway | |
[Happy Birthday, James! — Mum and Dad] | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Remember |
2021 | Now You’re 31… |
Versions: (Father And Son) | |
2020 | Make A Fuss |
2019 | Hopefully, You’re Learning To Forgive |
2018 | Enjoy The Sunsets As Well As The Sunrises |
2017 | Enjoy |
2016 | I Got A Feeling |
2015 | Fiction Leading To History |
2014 | A Self-Correcting Process |
2013 | None But He Knows |
2012 | 99% Are Demanding |
2011 | All In The Family |
Take Your Pick | |
The Most Pressing Task
Posted in Education, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged Change, Learning, Peter F. Drucker, Quotes on December 6, 2019| Leave a Comment »
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn. | |
— Peter F. Drucker | |
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On This Day In: | |
2021 | And Ever |
Love Wouldn’t Lie | |
2020 | Why I Used To Jog At Dawn |
Seeing You In His Arms | |
2019 | The Most Pressing Task |
Don’t Mess With The Lady | |
2018 | Seek A Clear View |
2017 | Living With Myself |
2016 | Still Looking In Mirrors? |
2015 | Fear No Evil |
2014 | And Nothing Can Be As Tragic As… |
2013 | Your Tax Dollars At Work |
2012 | Historically Unacceptable |
2011 | Niners Are NFC West Division Champions!! |
The Essence Of Leadership | |