Grand Central Station.

Life is a bit like grand central station. 

It's been busy busy busy, for me anyhow. 

I feel like I've been expanding, in myself, and opening. 

While at the same time, I feel the contracting of life as we 

know it, from the economy and all the changes that it's 

bringing to us. 

I noticed myself wanting to curl up, subtly, when I feel and 

hear about the changes going on.   

while everything in life is showing me the opposite, I will 

do my best to stay open.  Stay open to exactly where I need 

to be, and bring myself to the task of my life and my purpose. 

When I think about contraction, I realize that I have grown greatly

through pressure and contraction.  It's like the coal turning 

into a diamond.  Billy Jean King wrote a book called Pressure is 

a Privilege.  The title alone say it all.  I haven't read the book, but 

I'd like to.  I saw her talk at the Women's conference last year, and 

she was a total inspiration and a great speaker.  Pressure is a good thing. 

It seems that most great people have it in them or around them. There's 

always something lurking within or without that causes us to change,

that causes us to perform at a maximum performance. 

I also found this writing on expanding and contracting. 

Hidden Message: As we encounter new experience, we find disorganization expands as we encounter the unknown. If we decide to leave,

our activities contract back to a more comfortable organized state. This is the division between our quest for self-transforming experience

and our need for equilibrium. We are forever torn between living both contraction and expansion simultaneously. need for equilibrium