Times, they are a-changin' ...

Despite the foggy start to the day, Sol is on the forecasters' charts for OkieLand later today and all week. The mailbox held notices of paradigms shifters and shifting:

Several birthdays among the shifters:

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was published on this day in 1813.

Colette, perhaps the most beloved French writer of all time, was born today in the 1873 village of Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Burgundy

Sculptor Claes Oldenburg was born in 1929 Stockholm.

It's the birth date of Jackson Pollock. The Abstract Expressionist painter was born in 1912 Cody, Wyoming.

Mikhail Baryshnikov is 78 years old today. The Soviet-born American preeminent ballet dancer and actor was born in 1948 Riga , Latvia, U.S.S.R.

It was today in 1986 that Challenger exploded, shortly after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida claiming the lives of seven astronauts – among them was Christa McAuliffe who was to be the first school teacher in space. The disaster investigation resulted in a complete restructuring of NASA and its procedures.

Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions introduced the term “paradigm shift.” A paradigm is a set of beliefs, stories, images, concepts, and structures that govern the way we think about something. When a previous paradigm becomes so full of holes and patchwork “fixes” a complete overhaul occurs. The shift in thinking which might have felt threatening at one time now appears as the only way forward and as a real lifeline.
Another of these critical junctures appears to be underway these days. We are confronted with a conceptual shift brought about by advances in Quantum Physics, philosophy of science and philosophy in general by an apparent embrace of “non-duality.” Such paradigm shifts are always followed by “reframing stories.”

“The Way” is in and out there. But it is not a there. There is no there, there. – Gertrude Stein