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It is an evening of interesting weather, after a clear and crisp autumn day.  Now there is a gentle and pleasant rain, but when I stepped out onto my balcony to smoke a doobie an hour or two ago, the leaves were scuttling along the sidewalk , with a scratchy sound, and

To Change!

I thought “this will not last long – in a few short weeks, those branches will be naked as a skeleton, the temperature will have dropped from crisp down to chilly, and all the color will go out of the world.  The summer greens will be long gone and the oranges, yellows and golds which were their funereal fireworks will have settled down into brown, soggy, soggy brown, slowly decomposing and re-entering the ground.  This is the wind of change.”

It’s no surprise that wind is a metaphor for change.  Wind is constant.  Although the air may sometimes be still in the place where you are, you can be absolutely certain that it is blowing somewhere else.  The air gets bored, and restless, when it stays in the same place for too long.  I know the feeling.

Change is also constant.  Although things might appear unchanging, in the place where you are when you are there, but you can be absolutely certain that change is continuing.  There are the regular changes, of course, as night turns to day turns to night, as autumn campfires burn out and cede the ground to the snows of winter, as winter melts away and spring surfs in on a warm breeze,paving the way for the glorious brilliance of summer.  People get older, babies get born.  These are cyclical changes and they’ve been happening, unchanged, for thousands of years…maybe millions.

Then there are the technological changes, and the social changes that will come in their wake.  There are advancements in computer technology and new ways of applying that technology, there are advancements in medicine, genetics, biology.  There is a robot rolling around on Mars, sending back robot tweets, and there are telescopes in space, discovering new planets with assembly line regularity.  The cure for cancer (hint-it’s a cannabis derivative) and driverless cars are just around the corner.

Each change pushes the other changes in a never ending spiral of increasing knowledge and amazingness, just as the wind pushes the still air before it, as the whole world is interconnected.

The future is coming.  The future is coming fast.