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Ride the waves of change.

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Epiphany

I didn’t get to choose my narrative. These words were the waves of change that struck me. I was as surprised that they came to my mind even as I was surprised at how personally truthful the thought itself was. One day later, I found myself thinking that now here was my chance to choose one, and so I have. It’s a new one. It’s radical. It’s different. And it’s my own.

I’m reminded of a section of text via the narrator in my novel What’s in a Name that describes a character’s decision about her future: “She could now hardly wait to prove that it [her name] would not [be a problem], just as from this morning, she could hardly wait for this chance—just this one. Now here was that one chance standing in front of her like one big opportunity.”

The waves of change have arrived.

Eclipse

Yesterday was May 15, 2022, the night of the super flower blood moon. I’d been anticipating this rare and “incredible natural phenomenon,” according to Nasa Science Live, which on its YouTube channel inviting people to watch the Total Lunar Eclipse also noted that “Earth will pass between the Sun and the Moon, blocking sunlight and casting a shadow on the lunar surface. Starting at 9:32 p.m. EDT (1:32 UTC on May 16), people with clear skies in the Americas, Europe, and parts of Africa will begin to see the Moon get bathed in the red glow of every sunrise and sunset [that is] refracted through Earth’s atmosphere.”

So what does the foregoing have to do with my own narrative? The answer is in two words.

Stipulate to create the waves of change

According to Merriam-Webster, the intransitive meaning of the word is “to make an agreement or covenant to do or forbear something.”

Capitulate to create the waves of change

According to Merriam-Webster, the intransitive meaning of the word is “to cease resisting.”

Decision

So by stipulating and capitulating, I will have arrived at what Melanie Beckler on her YouTube channel aptly said:

“We really only get contracted and get weighed down when we resist. And so let go of resistance, embrace allowing openness, gratitude, compassion and love. And ride the waves of change this full moon lunar eclipse to bring forth the highest divine possibility for you.”

I have learned that there’s a price to pay for indifference. Let my own narrative now begin.

Garie McIntosh

May 16, 2022

Garie McIntosh
Garie McIntosh
Hi, I’m Garie. Since 2016, I’ve been engaged in intense academic studies and research through problem-based learning. This has been a time during which I discovered the learning theories that work for me, and applied them so that I could teach myself not only English grammar but also the linguistic aspect of the language. My objective is to engender understanding through the Socratic and the life-affirming and build new knowledge through making innovative connections. I have formally translated my learning education into McIntoshLinguistics, an organization that I developed on the Microsoft platform. The organization enables me to use my educational and grammatical editing model to support educational processes and meet traditional publishing standards. Through a Microsoft Qualified Educational User designation, the objective is to utilize Microsoft Teams Education to build a professional learning community and create unique processes and methods through grammatical and linguistic studies. As a literary fiction writer, I have published my first novel, “What’s in a Name.” By utilizing Microsoft applications to help me develop and formalize pedagogical processes and methods, I am able to produce manuscripts that are highly readable and semantically sound.

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