Most changes happen slowly, bit by bit, at a glacial pace.
But sometimes everything changes in an instant, for the better or worse.
Driving along in your car with all well and good and then you aren't well and good.
A loved one who has shared your life most of your life passes.
One minute things were as they have mostly always been, and then it is as if you plunged into an alternate universe.
But the best, my favorite, are the moments that change you in a blink for the better. You become a wife or a husband. Or a mother or a father.
Or a grandmother, as I just did last night. I didn't think it would change me so much. I feel different. Filled with joy and overflowing love, and aware of the huge role my grandparents had in my raising. May I be as good at it as they.
HT Jeremiah and Ellie