Add me to the list of folks who are going to talk about the big East Coast earthquake today. This was definitely the first earthquake I have ever been in - there's the potential for one when I was on senior week right after I graduated from high school. We were in Lake George, NY and I woke up from a deep sleep around the same time that a small earthquake was reported in Albany but I certainly didn't feel it.
But today we sure did. I had heard earthquakes described before - the rolling, the sudden movement but it's one of those things that you can't really imagine until you are in it. Philadelphia is alive and well and has something to buzz about that's a lot more friendly than the other stories going on in the city right now.
As you may be able to imagine, an earthquake can get a coach like me thinking.
Dictionary.com defines an earthquake as:
1.a series of vibrations induced in the earth's crust by theabrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strainhas been slowly accumulating.
2.something that is severely disruptive; upheaval.
Earthquakes can be scary. The literal ones where the earth shakes and the figurative ones where you feel like your whole world is shaking. Those earthquakes, the ones that often happen when no one else even realizes? Those are the really powerful ones. Those are the ones that allow you to stop, take stock and look at what is and what might be. And the real beauty of those earthquakes is that often no one else even knows about them. You may be ripped into pieces and the world continues to spin on its access. People go about their lives. YOU go about your life but you know. You know in your heart and your soul that something big has changed. Your earth has quaked. It is in that moment that any and all of us are heros for setting the new course and following the new path. The path set after the shift.
When has a major shift set you on a new path?
*-"Little Earthquakes" - Tori Amos
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