Quotes About Transition

Para entonces ya estaba muerta. En realidad, puede que llevara muerta mucho tiempo. Físicamente, solo unos segundo; mentalmente toda una vida.

By then she was dead. In fact, she may have been dead a while ago. Physically, several seconds ago, mentally, ages ago.

It's so odd, isn't it? That know we are all going to die, & that we have these difficult passages to go through with our parents & friends, & other people we love & care about who are also going to die, & yet it's almost as if we are never really ready.

As you know, things change. People die. Everything changes.

She will see & know for certain that everything is going to be just fine. But this day, this first day,... & when the wings of change have brushed against her life yet again, she just wants to be pissed off.

She begins laughing hysterically at the long-held notion that the bra, like her lost marriage, & her fabulous mother, & the man she thought she loved 2 men ago, or even the one she loves now, would last forever. ... & now the hole, emerging like an omen of change, slapping her upside the head, & making her wonder, "What next? What in the hell is going to happen next in this life of mine?

It's okay. I have to ride this until it's just a whimper. I didn't think about what was happening. I wasn't ready for all this change. ... It never felt quite real.

I've done this before. I know how it works, but I cannot get used to it.

Letting go does not have to be just because of a death. People lose many things they once believed they would have forever.... Let go. I guarantee that you will not fall

Nothing, it seems, is ever really over.

Life has so many pages to turn, & this page doesn't mean the story is over. The story is never over.

we are moving from a hierarchical leadership model to an heir-archy, as we are heirs with Christ to the throne of God

The interesting and challenging thing about this moment is that we know the old forms aren't working. But we can't yet see what the new forms will be. We are making them up in "real time"; we're even reimagining time.

sometimes our hearts just need time to accept what are heads already know

I was hit by a car, and according to the Hallmark Channel, I'm supposed to come home.

particularly gruesome menopause (or meno-go, as the case was),

That was the shitty thing about divorce. You lost that whole other family, that whole world.

I loved my family. But as I got older, I felt myself . . . disappearing. The good child, the easy teenager, the strong student. My siblings outgrew their need for a sitter/shepherd.

The past isn't a compass for the future

Your importance is dwarfed by their friends. Romantic interests. Cool professors and great coaches. A spouse, someday, and kids of their own, and you . . . you got left behind at a certain exit on the highway of their life, and all you can do is look down the road after them and remember when you were so needed, so loved, so sure of your place in the world, because you were Mommy, and that was everything.

My childhood had ended, and I never even had the chance to say goodbye.

When she reached the final landing, she cast her sword aside for all time, and it could now be seen still tumbling across the night sky. It was dominant in spring, the sword tipped up in the "salute" position, and as the seasons progressed into early winter, the sword spiraled until the tip was planted downward in the "warrior at rest" position.

Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.

I know from my own experience and from other people in the business that when you come from a place where nobody knew who you were and then there is this sudden shift to where everybody now knows who you are, there's an adjustment that you have to make.