Dear Reader:

In 1977 Billy Joel released (what he later admitted) was one of his favorite songs-Vienna.

Today’s post title is a line from the chorus of Vienna… lyrics that explore slowing down long enough to see the truth unfold…” But you know when the truth is told… that you can get what you want, or you can get old.”

Have you ever been jerked out of a mundane moment… like folding clothes, and suddenly a solution to a problem or opportunity you have pondered perhaps your whole life reveals itself?

We call these special moments… ” Defining, or Moment of Truth,” ” Pivotal Moment” or simply a ” Kairos Moment.” In the Ancient Greek language-” Kairos ” meant the ” right or critical or opportune moment to act on a potentially life-changing direction sign.”

In my last class before getting my Master’s… I had to take a course on statistics … I had put it off as long as I could… the last hurdle between me and my final educational goal. I was terrified!

The only thing I remember from that course was two words-quantitative or qualitative. In order to prove our personally selected curriculum hypothesis… we had to choose one type of procedure in our final conclusion.

I knew instinctively to follow the ” qualitative ” path because it allowed more ” wiggle ” room than the strictly structured quantitative outcome. My hypothesis dealt with showing that storytelling ( added to the curriculum) increased interest that resulted in longer retention that then resulted in higher test scores and improved classroom behavior-an important key to learning.

I think two things contributed to my final grade-A. ( My quote and personal note to the professor. )

I ended the paper with ” Who knows if this tis true or not… but it is how it appears to me.” Ancient Greek Philosophy and….

” The proof is in the pudding!” ( “And yours is in the classroom icebox… hope you like chocolate!” 😂) ( Since I got my ” A”… apparently she did!)

So until tomorrow… today time is defined by quantitative ( Chronos or chronological time… and Kairos as thought/provoking ” God Winks” … the kind of pivotal moment when we find ourselves asking the universe ” What is time for?” ( and then applying our personal answer to the question… our true purpose in our life odyssey. )

Today is my favorite day/Winnie the Pooh

One last thought we ( especially these days) should endorse and remember.