Today, I felt inspired to change the name of my blog from Ephemeral Utterances to Widdershins.

You see, the new name reflects the fact that things are usually not what they seem - in nature and in life.

Widdershins, the Scottish term for 'anti-clockwise', adequately expresses this. Most Westernized people think the earth turns in a clockwise direction, from right to left. In truth, however, the opposite is really the way of the world. The earth turns in counter-clockwise direction.

This conjures up lots of common Western ideas about the prejudice for 'right' and against 'left' - as though one were correct and the other incorrect. In truth, they are just both 'directions' like North, South, East and West. And still even using these words - in certain parts of the United States and the World these simple words hold connotations of good and bad.

Things in life are generally not what they seem at the time. It requires a great deal of patience and open-mindedness to give time to a 'thing' to see its true nature. We are all too quick to judge.

It is my desire to correct this in myself, now that I've reached my 50th year on earth. This year has been one of great upheaval, change and fear. Slowly, however, it is moving from these negative emotions to ones of hope, deliberation and rehabilitation. When you get to a point in your life where you are forced to rethink life and to re-invent yourself, you go through the fires of hell, but if you persevere, eventually we emerge on the other side stronger and hopefully, wiser.

So, yes, I intend to approach my life from here on, widdershins - as the Wise Ones say. And, you know who you are...