transformation

You are currently browsing articles tagged transformation.

This post is one of the last things I’ll be doing before powering down my laptop and adding it to the box of computer-related electronics.  I don’t know how long it will be before we are online in our new home, which is a slightly scary prospect for someone as dependent on e-mail and internet as I am!

The 10 months we’ve spent here have been a time of real transformation for me.  That hasn’t always been positive.  I am much more short-tempered and sometimes frustrated than I was in the past, something which I truly regret and am still trying to work through.  However, I’ve also been able to enjoy the blessings of friends and my family more than ever before!

All things come to an end, and every end is a new beginning.  I’m learning to look forward with hope.  At the moment I’m hoping that our new home will be a fresh start for me, that I’ll be able to clear my head a bit, re-focus my priorities and leave some psychological baggage behind as well.

See you on the flip side :)

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: , ,

The preface of one of the recipes I’m testing for Peter Reinhart’s new book (don’t worry, no spoilers!) describes bread and cheese as being two examples of ‘transformational food’.  What a phrase!  So much more inspirational than ‘fermented’.

The title of this blog is ‘transformations’.  For me that concept connects with much of what I do– from the bread and beer that I make, to the music that I write and enjoy, to the way I hope that my own self will develop through time.

The crux of the idea of transformation is that the thing in question is not static, but changing and progressing in a certain direction; and that the slow, incremental, and sometimes imperceptible process of change can cause it to emerge, surprising and quite suddenly, as something entirely new.

Which reminds me:  time to check the bread!

  • Share/Bookmark

Tags: ,