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It's a soft grey morning. The iPod alarm clock travails continue: how one generation of nano can be so different than another boggles my mind. Nonetheless, this morning was battery death in the speakers, and i can't recall when i charged them last.
I was all tangled up in a dream which i cannot recall now. Extended family and some gadget? Christine kindly woke to put my kettle on when the alarm went off, and i "finished" the dream in time to do some meditative breathing before it came to a boil. I do benefit from the slow waking up: so different from the adrenaline fueled waking up of so many years when my brain was -click- engaged and at dentist drill RPMs. And i so prefer time in the morning for me rather than the mornings when i have the early call. There's a 7 am software demo which i am skipping. I don't recall any webex information arriving: i'm not logging on to work to see if there's last minute contact info.
I'm hoping for, growing back into balance. It's been a long hard crawl back out of my dark depths: i am looking forward to celebrating my renewal this weekend.
I was telling my boss about the Appreciative* Inquiry book, poking at some of it's glib consultant phrases and misuse of the term reality, and then realized again that what i first express about something when i evaluate it is my criticism of it. What is working? I'm aware of the irony. I returned to explain why i was reading about Appreciative Inquiry: because i would like to learn to first see what is working and build on that. I think i manage to do that in my team, out loud, but my interior begins with the identification of infelicities and failure.
*Key phrases from random Amazon listings: appreciative interview questions, affirmative projection, appreciative interviews, affirmative topics, appreciative inquiry, affirmative projection... Ha, i feel a smidgen less silly for switching the terms back and forth.
Yay for this morning's actual "Morning Writing" for the first time in a good while. The sun's burning through the clouds, and the damp from the early morning rain may burn off soon. (Although the forecast gives even odds for precipitation through the evening, and claims an 80% cloud cover. Hrmph.)
I was all tangled up in a dream which i cannot recall now. Extended family and some gadget? Christine kindly woke to put my kettle on when the alarm went off, and i "finished" the dream in time to do some meditative breathing before it came to a boil. I do benefit from the slow waking up: so different from the adrenaline fueled waking up of so many years when my brain was -click- engaged and at dentist drill RPMs. And i so prefer time in the morning for me rather than the mornings when i have the early call. There's a 7 am software demo which i am skipping. I don't recall any webex information arriving: i'm not logging on to work to see if there's last minute contact info.
I'm hoping for, growing back into balance. It's been a long hard crawl back out of my dark depths: i am looking forward to celebrating my renewal this weekend.
I was telling my boss about the Appreciative* Inquiry book, poking at some of it's glib consultant phrases and misuse of the term reality, and then realized again that what i first express about something when i evaluate it is my criticism of it. What is working? I'm aware of the irony. I returned to explain why i was reading about Appreciative Inquiry: because i would like to learn to first see what is working and build on that. I think i manage to do that in my team, out loud, but my interior begins with the identification of infelicities and failure.
*Key phrases from random Amazon listings: appreciative interview questions, affirmative projection, appreciative interviews, affirmative topics, appreciative inquiry, affirmative projection... Ha, i feel a smidgen less silly for switching the terms back and forth.
Yay for this morning's actual "Morning Writing" for the first time in a good while. The sun's burning through the clouds, and the damp from the early morning rain may burn off soon. (Although the forecast gives even odds for precipitation through the evening, and claims an 80% cloud cover. Hrmph.)
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