«If you do not change direction, you might finish where you are headed.» — Lao Tzu Change can be difficult. To lose the capacity to pay for food and rent can trouble even the most frugal mind. And yet, without change, things would not come to pass. Change brings coins in the place of banknotes, and gelid drafts where once there was more than a mosquito-screen door of unemployment subsidies. To manage the change in one's own life can be arduous. Often the hands have a strange flavor if your change is for the most part in nickel. Try to shift the thought from the nickels to the quarters and, before you notice it, you will have less change than before. Take the change seriously. Think in terms of glass jars full with hundreds of dollars, and your cents of self-complacency will carry you to a new comprehension. Change can buy beans. The kind of beans that one eats, not those that one draws up in software. Change is the white upon the rice that renders complete the meals of a life. It is the black cabbage of entropy that brings the stones of which you have need to succeed. Without change, there are no bus tickets, nor chewing gums, nor those suspect prophylactics taken from the bathroom. So, the next time that life hands to you a little of spare change — you, throw them into the jar of life, and carry yourself onward!