I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.

-- Stephen Covey

I was eating lunch with a friend who shared that she disliked one of the vegetables on my plate and hadnt eaten any since childhood. I suggested that sometimes our tastes change and maybe she could give it another try. She did, and to her surprise, she enjoyed it. Her world became a little richer as she opened to new possibilities.

Is there something in your life you might be willing to give another try?

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.

-- Leo Buscaglia

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I really was jolted when this came in this afternoon. I had been watching a show about angles and what could be done with them in quilting patterns. At first I thought, "nope. I'm sticking to traditional blocks and themes" even though the blocks shown were just breathtaking. And then I had to ask myself "why?". Well, I knew why. Trying something out of my comfort zone, away from what I already knew, intimidated me. Because, if I try this new way, I may not be able do it. It's something new. It boiled down to my resistence to change of any kind. So, I got on the net and ordered the damned templates, and sometime next week I'm going to teach myself how to do a pattern that is alien to my experience. I realize that this is really metaphoric, but it is so parallel to how I approach so many other things in my life. I need to open up and trust enough to allow the new, the changes, to come into my life. If I dont like it, then now I know I dont like it. If I find I do like it, then I've enriched my life!  Wren