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Everything Changes

• Young people grow old.
  Days turn into nights.
  Short hair grows long.

• Like a popcorn kernel that suddenly pops.
  Or a birthday party when everyone shouts, "Surprise!"
  Or a cloudburst that drenches everyone to the bone,
  Or a lamp that changes a room from dark to light.

• Like a tree growing a little every day,
  Or an ice cube melting in a cold drink,
  Or the way the clock moves when you're
       waiting for recess to begin.

• Like the day in Spring when green buds appear
  Or the start of a race when all the runners take off
  Or when you leave home to go on a vacation.

• Like a house burning down
  Or a car screeching to a stop
  Or an earthquake that shakes the ground

• Like the first day of a new school
  Or a roller coaster ride
  Or learning to swim, or ride a bike.

How Things Change

• A sturdy tree stands many years, until lighting or wind comes along
      to knock it down.
  Traffic keeps moving, until a red light tells it to stop.
  We keep drinking until we aren't thirsty anymore.

• When a door is stuck, you need to push or pull hard to open it.
  An elevator has to be very strong to lift up a load of people
      weighing it down.
  Sometimes you have to argue very hard to change someone's mind.

• When one team is winning, they are the stronger side at that
      moment.
  When your body is stronger than any germs, you feel healthy, not
      sick.
  When a volcano is erupting, it is so strong that not even a mountain
      can hold it down.

• We blow up a small balloon, and it gets bigger and bigger.
  A baby tooth ready to come out gets looser every day.
  Our bedroom starts out neat and clean, but gets messier and
      messier as time goes by.
  A cold popcorn kernel being cooked gets hotter and hotter

Turning Points

• When a balloon gets too big, it pops.
  When a new tooth pushes far enough, a loose baby tooth falls out.
  At some point your room becomes so messy that you decide to
      clean it up.
  When the tiny drop of water inside a popcorn kernel turns to steam,
      the popcorn pops--all at once.

• When a match is struck, it bursts into flame
  When our sleeping bodies are rested, we wake up.
  When a piñata gets one last solid "Whack", the candy spills out.
  One day, when it is ready, a butterfly pops out of its cocoon.
  When snow on a mountain gets too deep, it falls in a thundering
      avalanche.

• Children grow a little every day, until one day there they are--
      all grown up.
  Over many, many years, wind and rain can change mountains into
      grains of sand.
  If you start with a big bag of Halloween candy, and eat a little
      every day, one day it becomes more empty than full.
  Icy winters change into balmy summers, day by day.

• Like a street that comes to a dead end
  Or going to bed at the end of a day
  Or the last day of school before summer vacation.

• Like the kiss at the end of a wedding.
  Or a home run that wins a ball game for your team.

• Like falling off a bike.
  Or saying good-bye to a friend if you move away.

• When the school year ends, summer vacation begins.
  If you fall off a bike, you can get up and try to ride again.
  If you move away, you can make new friends, and keep in touch
      with all your friends by email.

Circles and Spirals

• Like a Ferris wheel that goes up and comes back down to the same
      spot.
  Or the day which turns into night and then into day
  Or the seasons--Winter--Spring--Summer--Fall--and Winter again
  Or our breathing--in and out and in

• Like a winding staircase that moves in a circle, but comes around to
      a higher point.
  Or going to school and coming back home, but learning more about
      the world every day.
  Or losing something; then finding it, and then putting it in a special
      place so you won't lose it again.
  Or like children growing up to be parents with children of their own.

Making Changes

• If you don't like a TV show, you can change the channel or turn the
      TV off.
  If you don't like your hair style, you can cut it differently next
      time.

• If you want to play the piano, you can study and practice and learn.
  If you are shy or lonely, you can join a club and find people who
      like the same things you do.
  If you are mean to someone, you can say you're sorry.
  And if someone is mean to you, you can learn to forgive.

• For safer streets people can work to put up stop signs and traffic
      signals.
  To make our neighborhoods clean, we can help pick up trash.

• Sickness to health
  Poverty to wealth
  War to peace
  Famine to feast.