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Transformations

I realized today that all my favorite TV shows- basically "What Not to Wear" and anything on HGTV- have a lot in common.  In each of these shows, a really big transformation takes place.  In "What Not to Wear", my favorite part is when the woman gets her hair and makeup done, and she looks amazing despite how bad she looked before she was on the show.  But in fact, if she had looked fine before, the show wouldn't be so addicting.  And the shows that I like on HGTV are all room transformations: a really skilled designer takes a room lacking in style and throughout the episode, it becomes better and better until voila! it's all put together and even though we saw part of the process, it's such a great surprise.  So "What Not to Wear" and an HGTV room design show actually have almost the same structure: something that doesn't look that great is taken, through a long and difficult process, to a stunning level that was impossible to anticipate.

What is it about transformations that is so addicting?  Change is one thing, but transformation is a woman who looks almost completely different, or a room become unrecognizable.  I think people are both drawn to and afraid of transformations.  We don't want to lose who we are, and it's so hard to imagine what this kind of change could result in that we tend to stop somewhere in the middle.  Watching transformations can be fun and exciting. And while we want the excitement that would come from such a change, we're afraid of giving up control because that's what a  transformation is: in order for it to really work, we need to lose ourselves a little bit because we have no idea how spectacular the big picture really is.

The Story of Jonah

This video is adorable!
http://vimeo.com/16404771

Quote of the Day

Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.

-I Am The Messenger, Marcus Zusak

All I Want Is You: U2 Music Video

Lyrics Medley

All the promises we made
From the cradle to the grave
When all I want is you  (All I Want Is You U2)

Yeah I went with nothing
Nothing but the thought of you
I went wandering

I went out there
In search of experience
To taste and to touch
And to feel as much
As a man can
Before he repents   (The Wanderer Johnny Cash)

Those creatures jumped the barricades
And have headed for the sea (Belong R.E.M.)

A generation without name
Ripped and torn
Nothing to lose, nothing to gain   (Like A Song U2)

Stars hide your fires,
These here are my desires
And I will give them up to you this time around  (Roll Away Your Stone)

Love it will not betray you
Dismay or enslave you, it will set you free

Be more like the one you were made to be
There is a design, an alignment, a cry
Of my heart to see,
The beauty of love as it was made to be  (Sigh No More Mumford & Sons)

You make beautiful things,

You make beautiful things out of us.   (Beautiful Things Gungor)

Random Thoughts

First, again about vulnerability/ relationships, a quote from a really really good book, I Am The Messenger by Markus Zusak (author of The Book Thief):

"I want to talk to him.
I want to ask him about that girl and if he loved her and still misses her.
Nothing, however, exits my mouth.  How well do we really let ourselves know each other?"

Just an interesting thought.

And in this music video of "The Cave" by Mumford and Sons, read the highest rated comment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KkUeRPjc-Y. hahaha