The Dynamics of Change

by Don Fabun

Some wear to dust jacket, but otherwise very clean. Binding solid, no handwriting or other markings of any kind. Usually ships the same or next day out of California

190 pages, Paperback

First published April 9, 2007

Reviews

[Nigel Hey · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have to review this book because, in a sense, I wrote it before it was published. Don Fabun wrote a series of very intelligent and readable booklets for Kaiser Aluminum in the 1960s, somehow they feel into my hands, and I was greatly impressed. I have them no longer, but they were, I am sure, incorporated into this book.

Fabun caught me at a transitional time of life, and I was grateful for it. I had been an itinerant journalist of sorts, working for newspapers in Britain, the States, and Bermuda, and now I was in Utah, where somehow I did not seem to fit. Then I found Dynamics of Change, and suddenly I had a friend who I'd never met and never will meet.

Fabun was interested in the human condition, creativity, the future, and a lot of other things that happened to occupy my mind and my day-to-day interest more than a lot of other folks I knew. Like me he would jot down quotations that seemed insightful and currently relevant, and he would come up with ideas, or ways of putting ideas, that are themselves quotable. At the time, in 1966, I wrote down this one and have kept it ever since:

"Here he comes, stumbling down his ten thousand technological years – the fragmented man... He strides into the spectrum as once the lonely horseman rode into he sunset of another time and place. And no one knows what new adventures await him now."

This perspective may make you feel a little gloomy, but it is quite the opposite (the U.S. was forging along with the successful Apollo men-on-the-moon project at the time). Rather, Fabun challenges you to think, teases you into ruminations over things that might not have seemed so intriguing or so compelling before. This writer helped steer my life into a more satisfying and meaningful journey. Here and there his book may be a little outdated now, but his main points will still ring true. This book is a winner.

[Roger Jackson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read it in college in the fall of 1970; it turned out to be prophetic in many ways.

[Nikki Montgomery · Rating 5 out of 5]

A thought-provoking dive into life. Full of nature-themed pictures. I read it to my new born while I was darting through the unfamiliar waters of a lonely and long postpartum depression journey filled with lots of crying and anxiety (yay), and this book was inspirational in my coming out of it. I didn't know it at the time, but I wasn't reading this book for my baby, I guess I needed it.

[John · Rating 1 out of 5]

Rated: F