Heroes Not Zombies

If you look carefully (you might have to zoom in) you can see that white light in the top right hand corner of my photo is a crescent moon. It’s the almost gone waning sliver of the moon.

This view really struck me this morning. In this one moment I could see close to the end of a moon cycle and the first traces of dawn as the sun turned the sky pink before it climbed over the horizon to begin a new day.

I love this concurrence of an ending and a beginning. It reminds me of the “as one door closes, another opens” saying. But it especially makes the reality of change more vivid.

Maybe it’s because I worked as a doctor, spending my time, one to one, with individuals every working today. Every single one of those people came to me hoping for change. One of the ways I understood what my work was, was to see myself as an agent of change.

I know that too much change is uncomfortable. I know that sometimes it’s brutally painful. But, ultimately, change is the one constant, so to speak, and the silver lining of painful change was always the fact that “this too shall pass”….that the potential for change for the better, that some relief, some comfort, was always there.

Whatever the reasons I have become very aware of, and very sensitive towards, natural change – the dawns and the sunsets, the phases of the moon, the cycle of the seasons.

I find all of that, and more, fills me with awe and wonder.