~ it is time to get on the bus ~

I arose this morning to the sun.  My alarm didn't sound, but the bright morning sun shone through my chinese paper shades and through my prayer flags to lighten the room enough to know it was morning. I could feel the chill in the air as it flowed through the slightly open window.  Fall is amongst us in Reno, NV.  The leaves are turning color and beginning to fall on the streets and in the parks and I'm finally able to throw my leather jacket on both as I venture out for a libation in the evening and my coffee in the morning.  I love changing seasons and fall has to be my favorite.  It's still warm enough during the day to explore the outdoors and be in nature, the most powerful form of energy known to man.  But it is cool enough to be creative with your attire.  To show individuals whom you may encounter a little bit about you, without ever having to say a word.  Do you know that every decision you make speaks.  Every thought you think reverberates through the energetic airwaves we as humans like to call wind, air, or oxygen.  I've written this before but maybe the reason I like the changing of seasons is because of well, change.  Change is inevitable.  Change is constant, yet always changing and or moving.  Isn't this a paradox, but isn't this truth?  How can that be?  How can change be the only constant, but then the only constant not be constant?  Huh.  If change is the only constant, what does that say about what one can truly know.  If scientifically speaking, change is the only thing that one can truly know, but that is always changing, do we fully know anything?  Am I the only one following this thought process, God I sure hope not!  Of course I'm not the only one.  Whether we understand it or not, can process it or not, can verbalize it or not, we all exist within it and the majority of us succeeding to some degree.  Thus, don't we all know it to some degree?
Change is inevitable and if you are anything like me, curious, it is hard for me to control my mind enough so that it doesn't try to deductively break things down to understand why.  However,  I'm seeing this might not be beneficial in all situations.  Or maybe it is, because it is who I am, and exactly where I need to be within this cosmic sphere of energy.  Who knows?  I've been thinking lately about honesty amidst this change.  I have been wired through society, people, religion, technology, culture (geographically and time periodically) and well religion, to think a certain way, act a certain way, speak a certain way, and well frankly live a certain way.  Fuck, as I sit and ponder this, I sure hope that the few thousand of people who taught me these black and white ways out of the presently 8 billion plus humans living amongst this earth not to mention the millions of years and trillions of humans prior to us and who the fuck knows how many after us, are right.  What if we already know who we are from birth?  What if we already have something engrained within us that will guide us for the rest of our lives?  What if rather than teaching people certain ways, we just loved one another along every way.  What if there was no right or wrong way because every way is always moving and always changing.  Is this just a philosophical hope or is this scientific actuality that exists?
As I got my coffee this morning I noticed a change.  The cute blonde that normally takes my money and smiles heavily at me as I walk through the door, and I her because she is lovely, wasn't behind the counter to take my money.  Where was she?  She was a few feet to the right behind the espresso machine.  Don't take this lightly, please.  This is powerful.  I ordered my coffee and paid the attendant.  I received my coffee and proceeded to put a bit of milk in it which is unusual for me but I wanted to communicate with the lovely blonde.  She smiled and said hello.  I responded.  She asked me how I was and I said that I was well.  I replied with the same question and she said, "I'm good.  I'm behind this (looking down at the espresso machine) now instead of that (she turned and looked at the register)".  I asked her if that was new?  She said yes.  She then began to share with me how she was excited but a bit scared.  I listened as I slowly stirred my overly stirred coffee.  I then shared with her, "most things that are scary are good, at least from my experience".  She smiled, agreed, and proceeded to share with me that she loved scary movies.  I listened a bit more as she shared more, but I think you get the point.  Change is always occurring and in my eyes, mind and soul it is a beautiful thing.  Change does happen every moment of every day whether we want it to or not.  Change can also occur because we choose it as well.  I'm changing a lot in my life currently, and this is why I have been pondering it and or realizing it on a more frequent basis.  Are you?  What is changing in your life?  Are you wanting change?  Do you embrace change or are you scared of change?  For the barista this morning, she recognized her emotions that change brought to her, but her bright eyes and stinging smile encouraged me that change is all we have sometimes and that I truly don't need to know anything other than that!  One thing is for certain, change is rolling through this universe constantly.  It's about time I bought a ticket and hopped on the bus.  The ride is beautiful and one day in the soon future I may even be driving my own bus of change!
There is a shift in our universe that is happening.  No matter your race, religion, sexuality, preferences, likes, dislikes, hobbies, and or even your name, the Universe that we all exist within is changing.  Find your bus and get on it!  My bus is Love and all are welcome!  Be a part of the shift!  It is time to get on the bus.

-namaste