Is your "loose change" just tossed in a jar? Left in car doors? a drawer?

Or does it clank noisily against your pants leg, irritating you like a bad habit that needs addressing ? Are you prepared to visualize the minimal remnants of larger denomination bills reduced to silver and copper coins, sitting in the hidden corners of your pocket as a symbol for 'change'? If it is feasible for you to adopt the construct for coins as 'change' also use them as 'the change' we must see in our country. It is small and reduced to two separate factions struggling for the same thing: survival.

A Democrat and a Republican both want 'change' but how they deal with making it happen is how they abuse it (throw away in a jar for later) OR keep it close, convert it to dollars (or better opportunities to earn more for working less but effectively and so on). It appears to be in how we value our worth, material versus spiritual. Does it not begin with how we handle our respective role in having change occur naturally within ourselves, how we toss it in a jar or keep it close to our personal self, nurturing its spending quality, that is more converging within the human condition.

Are you following? Or have I lost you ? If you are following it is a simple design really. The jingling 'change' you keep close to you whether on your person or in a handbag, knapsack or sport-coat/wallet is a direct representation of how you categorize important from non-important items. The lesser denominations of $20's, $10's, $5's and $1's bills reduced to the copper and silver used to make the 'coins' is called change and it is. It now resembles something different but still is available for the same purpose the dollar, five, ten or twenty bill was used for: purchasing stuff. But 'change' in this case is not buyable really, it is more like awarded for good behavior.

Take global warming for example and the weirdness it is causing climactically across the globe. It is going to happen no matter what we do to prevent it; however, the ENTIRE planet of inhabitants will not perish, only the ones that truly cannot appreciate nor acclimate to the small significant changes occurring one day at a time. Like that 'change' in their pocket that jingles and perhaps is added to, growing in denomination ready to come to fruition of its true worth, so shall the planet.

Small acts of kindness to the mess we made serves as what we do with that change, do we toss it in a jar for later (like say I will recycle next week or get in touch with my waste management company next week--OR I will stop running the dishwasher or dryer or washing machine less than 3 times a week--OR instead of running to the store every two days for a few items get a longer list together and cover in one day a maximum of three stores to get everything needed for up to a thirty day supply).

Can you associate the magnitude of the country's concern in terms of multi-tasking your busy day and feeling frustrated when all you wanted to do could not get done ? Does it help providing visuals for habits we do with things taken for granted that we are aiming at globally, to facilitate real 'change'? Do you believe there is a growing awareness of our world spinning into a more recognized positive transition around every corner? Do you see less use of the 'tossing excess change into a useless jar' and seeing individuals put their money where the important values are going to be delivered from? How one sees that transition depends on one's belief system yes, but it is happening.

It is dividing the very core of the human race, the acknowledged fact we are all humans breathing and living with our furred and finned creatures in a harmony of sorts. But it must get better, more unified. You ask "how ?" I answer, "We cannot argue that people of the 'human race' are very concerned about issues that are blown out of context by the people we elect to report the truth. When people we trust go against us, we revert inward. We turn the other cheek. We adopt an "I don't care" attitude resembling the tossing of that 'change' in the proverbial jar and dealing with it later . . . which in fact makes a greater problem because of the guilt that manifests from doing something, believing in something we never really truly accepted.

It is that change is only going to be worth what the government says it should be and with no gold backing that paper, or those coins, is more available so therefore that 'change' is worth-less. But maybe our personal part in how we value it, is what that change, those piles of coins you are about to toss in the jar, maybe it is in that small handful that something can be done.

Just take a look in studying, if you cannot physically observe another one outside of your own, different cultures and societies. Make mental note of how different or similar those belief systems also employed to create different pockets of reality, particularly when the belief systems incorporate extreme religious dogma and many places to use it, work for the inhabitants living there. Just out of curiosity, which pockets in your jacket-of-life are constantly getting filled and emptied, filled and emptied? And what are you filling them up with?

Perhaps you wear more than one jacket as many of us do, but consistently remnants of what and who we are, follow every pocket in every jacket or coat or sweater we own, because it is meant to, as a part of us. It is established within our psyche, we are more connected to dogma than we sometimes care to accept, and it might be as simple as what we keep in our pockets.

You know those rosary beads? those lucky rabbit's foot? those medallions with St Christopher engraved on them? that gold watch your great-granddad gave you before he passed over--all important symbols of our living in this life, thus far. The good things associated with good memories follow us usually with every new re-location, every form of transportation we owned or rented and every pocket of every frock or pants we ever put on, carried us in it. Some pockets carry deep dark secrets that in the light one sees the burnt hole through the pocket that the secret left with its mark intact.

Other pockets carry stories that have a very important lesson woven throughout or culminating at the end. While even more pockets are just full of 'junk'. My pockets mostly consist of straight-forwardness, open-mindedness, curiosity, emotions, self-respect, hope, & determination amongst the intangible things; while the tangible things would be some loose change, hair barette, fuzz, keys, lighter, and maybe batteries for the camera. Nifty combination, huh ?

Life is not always what you expect it to be but at least when your pockets are full of familiar things, you can exchange in a positive dialogue with 'change'. You have to use all of your tools God or the Creator or goddess or whatever gave you, so use the ones you discovered on your own within yourself that no-one ever could get between. Then you can make an honest judgement. Believe in your third eye and what it can see for you?

Looking towards a future unseen by the naked eye can be accessed through that 'third eye' generally discovered through any meditative practice. ake that jar of loose unused change down from wherever, exchange it for paper, invest it in some way valuable to you, and feel good about making change personal to you. I feel once everyone catches on, the message will spread like wild-fire and we can take back a country and its ''change' with respect !

So those pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters are jingling offering thoughts to change, whats your game plan to make 'change' happen?

'till next time, the Enlightenment Advisor aka Erica Hidvegi