When I set off down the

roadAdapted from: Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes Written by William Bridges, 2004

Additions & Resonances from Education/Training/Lived-Experiences/&/Knowledge of Dr. Bertita Graebner

@ Conversations With Bertita

The Three Phases of

Transition Process image to be inserted.

And to make an end is to make a

beginning.

The end is where we start from.< < Little Gidding, 4th quartet

< < Four Quartets, poem. 1943

T. S. Eliot

We start at the end:

That is where we begin

Dis/Engagement Process > >

CAN ANNOUNCE AS A —

SUDDEN BURST —

⌘ ITS — OVER! ⌘or

DAWNING CONSCIOUSNESS —

⌘ THE TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN

&

SUMPINS GOTTA GIVE ⌘

Dis/Mantling Process > >

What is over ? ? / What is done ? ?

Finding & separating out bits & chunks from the dividing-

walls of my inner school

Undoing the bits ➣ Editing the self

A studied falling apart

Trans/evolution: Undoing, deconstructing my dignity

I see my puzzle pieces spread out before me

I am dis / assembled:

Dis/Identification Process > >

Knowing:

I am no longer there

I am no longer that

I ain’t where I ought to be and I ain’t what I’m goin to

be.

But I ain’t what I was.

< < signage:

seen in Western USA

Dis/Enchantment Process >>Even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you.

Even as he is for your growth so is he for your

pruning.< < The Prophet, prose-poem book/26 parts. 1923

Kahlil Gibran

Dis/Orientation Process >>And if you are lost enough to find yourself

< < Directive, a poem. 1947

Robert Frost

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