A bRANT is a rant on a blog by Bill. A weekly bRANT is one that occurs weekly. bRANTs are warranty free and are not guaranteed to be good for your health. Despite this, they may be of interest.
Change. It happens whether we welcome it or resist it. People change lots of things: their cars, their minds, the partners (change of heart), their personalities. People change their tune. Change can be spontaneous or planned—clerks make change daily. Drivers return home a different route just for a change. Routinely, at Buckingham Palace, guards change. According to Ecclesiastes, to everything there is a season and seasons do change. Change can be liberating, exciting or painful. Sometimes our inability to accept change can be dangerous. Sometimes numbing or debilitating.
It reminds me of the story of the little girl who was watching her mom prepare the holiday ham. She watched and wondered why her mother cut off both ends of the ham before putting it into the pot, so she asked why. Her mother was stumped and realized she didn’t know why. “I don’t know, sweetie, I’m just doing what I saw my mother do each year.”
The little girl and her mom decided to phone the girl’s grandmother to find out why. The answer: “I’ve always prepared the ham the way my mom did.”
Even though it was long distance, they phoned the great-grandmother next. When they asked her the same question they were met with a solid minute of laughter. She then answered, “I was forced to cut the ends off the ham because it was the only way I could get it to fit into the small pot I had.”
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The short video here demonstrates unexpected change:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xz45b_water-funny-accidents_fun
Love this bRANT. Makes one think. Loved the video too. Great stuff
Posted by: Stacey Jenson | 12/06/2010 at 10:53 PM