Thrown in the air by an explosion, he fell to earth, transformed anew.
They say second inaugurals lack the power of the first, that they can't match the impact and novelty of seeing a one-time candidate transformed anew, into a president.
Once filled with Irish, Italian and Quebecois families, the city's Old North End, with its blocks of tidy wood frame houses, has been transformed anew, this time with markets like the Somali-owned Community Halal grocery, a store that has made it possible to buy frozen Australian camel meat in Vermont.
But these familiar figures are transformed anew through Reedus' parallel artistic perspective, and the blood, pus, and general nastiness becomes but one curious facet of a whole new story of surrealism, secrets, and serendipity.
Then this summer, as one-day captain, Cook learns that this is not enough and he must transform himself anew.
He emerged anew, transformed by the shamanic chants into a shiny-eyed believer.
He was transformed into himself anew.
My point in telling you this story is to show that even in the most extreme situations, human beings can go through a process of inner healing and self-acceptance and become transformed and born anew (without any "born-again" religious overtones) through the eternal, infinite healing power of love -- and this process must always begin with self-love.
The new situation of human beings, for their part, works anew as fermenting "leaven" within old humankind, as "fresh dough," and contributes to transforming the old form of humanity through its fermentation into the state of the Kingdom of God.
In fact, we need leaders like that everywhere: to fix stagnant public schools; to create new industries and innovate in old ones; to develop the policies and technologies necessary to deal with climate change; to think and act anew in a transformed world.
Considering those words anew might not transform us into cheerful taxpayers — our 1040s and 1099s may be too much of a pain to ever bring us joy — but it might restore "a proper sense of proportion" to the moral significance of what those forms represent.
