One definition of transformation is:
For some reason I have been thinking of transformation a lot in the past several weeks. I'm sure seeing the Susan Boyle u tube piece triggered it. But, I am sure the thoughts are , mostly, the result of the subconscious pull of analyzing the transitioning process from full time employment to full time retirement, i.e. the need to find meaning in a life without full time dedication to a profession one loves ~ the need for continued identity and sense of self worth. I have to say the change from full time professor to full time "retired" was abrupt! Cancer definitely speed-ed up the retirement decision. Without the challenge of a strong desire to remodel the lake cabin I don't know what I would have done. But, now the remodel is substantially done. If I had it to do over again, I certainly would have attempted to ease myself out of academia in a little less abrupt manner. So I guess "here I sit trying to define myself!" :-) Or maybe I'm just looking for another project! My friend Paul Graul says the only regret Skip is going to have when he dies is that he didn't finish his last project. That is probably true.
Transformation as a concept is different from a "defining moment", i.e. one can be transformed without a defining moment. However, a defining moment implies transformation. A good example of both occurring would be Susan Boyle's defining moment on Britain has Talent. I am sure Ms Boyle's transformation to singer was a life time process. However, she will forever be defined by her moment on Britain has Talent. I have observed in the course of my life that the defining moment may come at the beginning or end of the transformation process. I clearly remember being asked to join the accounting firm of Kenny Good and Associates in Billings Montana. I remember we were having pizza, after tax season, at the Alpine House of Pizza(interesting name) in Billings when I was asked. I knew the moment that I said no, I'm sorry, I want to be an accounting professor, that I had, at that moment, set course for a life in academia. I often look"back" and wonder...
I'm not looking for a defining moment. I'm just looking for "the formula that effects a transformation". Dang, I'm not sure I know what the variables are or what mathematical rule applies at this point. If any of you out there knows the equation and variables, let me know ~ please. :-)
On a more positive note, I am thinking about remodeling the bathroom at the cabin. And, I will build the RV port if I ever get the permit to do so.
Dad, et. al.
" (1): the operation of changing (as by rotation or mapping) one configuration or expression into another in accordance with a mathematical rule ; especially : a change of variables or coordinates in which a function of new variables or coordinates is substituted for each original variable or coordinate (2): the formula that effects a transformation b: function 5a c: an operation that converts (as by insertion, deletion, or permutation) one grammatical string (as a sentence) into another ; also : a formal statement of such an operation."(Merriam Webster Dictionary)
For some reason I have been thinking of transformation a lot in the past several weeks. I'm sure seeing the Susan Boyle u tube piece triggered it. But, I am sure the thoughts are , mostly, the result of the subconscious pull of analyzing the transitioning process from full time employment to full time retirement, i.e. the need to find meaning in a life without full time dedication to a profession one loves ~ the need for continued identity and sense of self worth. I have to say the change from full time professor to full time "retired" was abrupt! Cancer definitely speed-ed up the retirement decision. Without the challenge of a strong desire to remodel the lake cabin I don't know what I would have done. But, now the remodel is substantially done. If I had it to do over again, I certainly would have attempted to ease myself out of academia in a little less abrupt manner. So I guess "here I sit trying to define myself!" :-) Or maybe I'm just looking for another project! My friend Paul Graul says the only regret Skip is going to have when he dies is that he didn't finish his last project. That is probably true.
Transformation as a concept is different from a "defining moment", i.e. one can be transformed without a defining moment. However, a defining moment implies transformation. A good example of both occurring would be Susan Boyle's defining moment on Britain has Talent. I am sure Ms Boyle's transformation to singer was a life time process. However, she will forever be defined by her moment on Britain has Talent. I have observed in the course of my life that the defining moment may come at the beginning or end of the transformation process. I clearly remember being asked to join the accounting firm of Kenny Good and Associates in Billings Montana. I remember we were having pizza, after tax season, at the Alpine House of Pizza(interesting name) in Billings when I was asked. I knew the moment that I said no, I'm sorry, I want to be an accounting professor, that I had, at that moment, set course for a life in academia. I often look"back" and wonder...
I'm not looking for a defining moment. I'm just looking for "the formula that effects a transformation". Dang, I'm not sure I know what the variables are or what mathematical rule applies at this point. If any of you out there knows the equation and variables, let me know ~ please. :-)
On a more positive note, I am thinking about remodeling the bathroom at the cabin. And, I will build the RV port if I ever get the permit to do so.
Dad, et. al.
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