Extreme anxiety, fear, exhaustion, and lack of other viable options are what cause a person to surrender everything. Desperation is also the raw material of drastic change. Crisis spurs critical, dramatic shifts in a person’s psyche. Only a person who is willing to lose everything will transform himself or herself. Only by moving outside our comfort zone of the past – letting go of a former being – will a person expand their state of conscious awareness. Now that I am desperate, I am dangerous. I am also ripe for transformation.

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences. Like vivid, rainbow metallic skin cells on the wings of a fragile butterfly, it is how you touch and reveal those inner parts of yourself, without damaging the psyche, that determines whether the beauty is experienced and expressed and shared with others or, in fact, becomes the death of the self and Soul and psyche. I hope that I capture something in my work that is about the elusive, the magical and powerful and the transformative. The writing in itself is transformative for me.

“Man, became man through work, who stepped out of the animal kingdom as transformer of the natural into the artificial, who became therefore the magician, man the creator of social reality, will always stay the great magician, will always be Prometheus...”

“has been a longtime champion of Medicare modernization, and of providing seniors with access to preventive medicine and the new drugs that are transforming health care in this country. I saw this commitment firsthand in my work on the 2003 Medicare reform bill.”

“For like two seconds, it felt like it was coming for my house. The bed was shaking and you heard this big boom. I thought it was a transformer. ... Usually you can tell how trains travel, but this one felt different.”

“Once you've transformed euthanasia into a medical treatment, there's no logical way you can say that it should not be available to children. People who support euthanasia should do so with their eyes open. It will eventually be available to everyone.”

I told myself 'Everything is a being! The shout that passes into the air is an entity like an animal, since it is born, produces a movement, and is again transformed, in order to die. So the fearful mind that believes in incorporeal beings is not wrong. What are they?

“At Kohl's, our objective is to provide great fashions to our customers to help transform the way they look, live and feel. We are happy to report that the results of our survey reinforce our customer-focused beliefs and fashion ideology.”

“Voters thought he's verbose, but he was crisp and on message -- a lot of people who hadn't focused on Kerry suddenly were. The whole race was transformed. ... That debate really got a lot of people [to rethink their votes], and it was reflected in the polls.”

Once you embrace that continuous change is a natural process for your growth and evolution, you will be reminded that who, what, and where you are now is a temporary condition. Understanding this fact is foundational for hope, positive change and resilient transformation.