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the good doctor is good

in response to a thing at work that made me very very sad:

I'm not minimizing the impact of this [ ] but in all honesty, you learned nothing new about [a person] or [a place]. It is profoundly sad ... The key is to stop expecting that anything about [this thing] will change, despite the quality of your work or the magnitude of your accomplishment.

Focus on what you have to be thankful for - your family & friends, people who love and support you ( ), and the countless lives you have impacted through your work and just by virtue of who you are. You don't need acknowledgment from [ ] to feel thankful for that. Tomorrow, I am sure many people will be thankful for you being in their lives at their table, directly or indirectly.


[edited from a very slightly longer message; the thinking, the ideas are useful. poking sharp sticks at people isn't.]

although the good doctor is very much a cognitive kind of guy, there's a profound kindness in his instructiveness. also, a general kindness as well.

what someone said about work

http://ilovecharts.tumblr.com/post/1650969454/via-brandotgreat

source here

language

how we say what we do

how we do

how we do what we say

translation

it's complicated

epic

"do some epic stuff"

or was it "do some epic shit"

or "do something epic" ?

whatever. should have written it sooner.

blessings, of sorts, from a fellow traveller, on a parallel path, sort of. in a way.

holding: steady, still, on, strong, fast.

and, also

sad

why

are my students receiving information around me?

they say they are angry.

I understand this.

minimum wage

and this

a small good thing

one of the people affected by an inadvertent bad thing that happened last week - something of a Rube Goldberg like series of misunderstandings -who could have stayed angry and distant just came in and greeted me warmly. with kindness. with the affection of our many years' friendship and co-workingness.

for that I am grateful.

listening

wondering.

what comes next?

agency, efficacy. acting. reacting.

don't know about sponding, but am cautious about responding.

about doing it all again.

again.

gesture

someone in authority brought breakfast pastries. to the workplace. it was a kind gesture. it was a gray and raining day.

I ate none and was incapable of expressing gratitude, even while recognizing that it was a kind thing to have done.

I had no words.

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