“Things are rarely as permanent as they appear.”
“No rain, no rainbows.” Hawaiian saying.
Permanence
Factfulness: Change
“Slow Change is Not No Change”
Photo is from my 2018 trip down the Grand Canyon with Western River Expeditions taken with my iPhone7. This is the Navajo Bridge (now two bridges). I wonder if we have to change its name? Or tear it down?
Another Change
Yesterday I posted about a change in my postcard routine that had a positive effect on my enjoyment of postcard writing as a hobby. As I finished the post I realized I have another change going on related to writing/producing this blog. At about the same time that I was contemplating changing the structure and frequency of my posts WordPress changed the format and structure of the post creation page. It slowed me down and forced me to rethink what I’m doing.
So far I like the fact that I’ve gone to a weekly instead of a monthly creative process. The items are fresher and less formatted. But I’m resisting learning the changes to little things like page breaks, photo sizing and adding categories.
Stay tuned
Complexity
Small changes can have big results.
I was writing postcards in batches of ten or more and breaking the batches down into steps it took me a few hours to write ten postcards and the batch nature of the operation although efficient was not giving me as much pleasure as writing the cards individually. So I changed to writing cards as a warm up exercise for the day and only writing five which I can get done fairly fast and now I am again enjoying writing postcards.
One small change has pyramided into a nice improvement in my routine. It is applied complexity.
Chaos
There will be weather tomorrow. There always is.
The song you’re listening to will end, a surprising news story is going to change the status quo and you’ll get feedback you didn’t expect.
It’s easy to imagine that things are going to calm down, that there’s a neutral position coming up, and that it’s all going to go back to normal.
But the swirl is normal. It’s always been this way. Changing.
There is no ‘happy ever after’.
There’s just the chaos of now and forever. Learn to be happy with it.
Adapted from Seth Godin’s daily blog
Change
”If we want things to stay as they are, then things will have to change.”
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa in The Leopard Continue reading “Change”
Retail Evolution
Last week I begrudgingly used the self checkout at my local Fry’s grocery store. It was a struggle and while walking home (with my reusable Love Bags) I wondered how we got to the point where we have to find our own stuff, push it to the front of the store, ring it up ourselves and bag it.
This is the abbreviated story of the evolution of retail from dry goods to self checkout. Continue reading “Retail Evolution”
Coffee Filter Lesson
I make coffee the old fashioned way. Using a cone filter and coffee grounds. Not because of some environmental impulse but because I couldn’t find a way to make Kuerig coffee strong enough for my taste. I’ve been using the Ninja Coffee Maker recommended by Ellie Gerst for a year and I’ve learned to make good coffee at the strength I like. Continue reading “Coffee Filter Lesson”
November 9, 2012 Maxim
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
Apropos of my Post Election Memo to Republicans
Thanks to Paul D. for finding this maxim.
