We need to allow ourselves to pursue hunches, to discover … nonobvious pieces of information and even more important, non-obvious relationships between new information already in our memory. … we need to give ourselves time to make new images and move them around inside our heads, and on paper, in new arrangements.*
Peter Turchi

nothing changes in the absence of tension**
gapingvoid

I am glad that I’m not the person
I was at twenty one,
Or thirty three,
Or fifty six –
Although each of these Geoffreys
is still a part of me –
They have helped me to who I am:
I am sixty one,
and I am also four,
and twelve, and twenty-three,
and forty-five,
and … and … and …
If we lose any part of ourselves,
we are thereby diminished.
If I cannot be thirteen
and sixty-one simultaneously,
part of me has been
taken away.^

I have changed,
Through complexity and randomness,
Through exploration and discovery,
Between the old and the new,
Life.

*Peter Turchi’s A Muse and A Maze;
**gapingvoid’s blog: Change sucks, or does it?;
^Madeliene L’Engle’s Walking on Water.