A "Black Swan Event" is when the unexpected occurs, causing a huge mindshift and change in how the world works. People never imagined that Black Swans existed, until the discovery of the first Black Swan... (as per book "The Black Swan", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007, that sold over 3 million copies)

Is a perception change the next Black Swan Event? Consider that by changing perception we might change the world. Look at everyday things from different angles. Find beauty in the unexpected...
Change our thinking, change our actions, change our world!

See that all people are part of God's puzzle and have something to give. Black swans do exist. The ugly duckling was actually a swan who needed to discover himself and where he fitted and be who he was meant to be. To the last, the lost and the least, you are beautiful as you are.
May all who visit this page feel God's touch and experience His blessing...

Sunday 11 November 2012

Books That Breathe

Have you ever wondered at the wellspring that is creativity? How do some people write 20 or more novels, and each is unique and wonderful and gripping? Some authors write a variety of very different novels, and others may write a series. Where does such creativity come from? I have read that there are only so many types of stories, forming a general framework on which ideas hang, yet I have read books that have made me see into a breathing world of intrigue and mystery, far unlike anything I may have imagined before. For example, Robin Hobb's books. She creates dragons, and wood that is infused with life, and people who communicate with their nature counterparts, for example, wolves. I have read JK Rowlings Harry Potter books, and the characters are real people, whom one feels compassion for, and who become one's friends for the time spent among the pages, gripped by surprising adventure. Stephen King wrote The Stand, redefining future history, crafting a world on the brink of apocalypse, a virulent flu run amok, streets devoid of people and cars abandoned atop one another. And Stephen King is still writing, as are many other authors. I find such talent astonishing. Where does imagination such as this come from? And I know there may be many more stories such as this out there, perhaps not discovered by the public yet, but waiting in the minds of people, or in books poised for discovery. I may wonder and marvel, but I also know that I am thankful to people such as these, who breathe life into words. Books have been my friends, sometimes when people weren't. How I yearn to craft tales such as these. Hopefully, someday I might...