“The first principle of life is that everything changes. Every millisecond, and in every direction, we are surrounded by changes, and often the changes come not an abrupt binary switches but in gradient spectral shifts, slowly morphing, with the infinite variability of widened eyes. Can we play life’s changes, transitioning between phases as smoothly as the blackbirds swoops down to land on the scraggy field in a seamless ark, or the infant boy as he rolls his Rs from a high pitch down to a low growl?" -Stephen Nachmanovitch, The Art of Is