Carol H Tucker Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan
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beladona Memorial Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
I don’t feel particularly encouraged by anyone today actually, other than my tired muttered repetition of “come on, Carol, you can do it”. There is no mentor standing nearby to tell me as my daughter tells her little girl “good job” or to thank me. No one is waiting for me when I get home, just a cat who wants to be fed and who leaves little “gifts” in the middle of the floor when he doesn’t feel like he gets enough cuddles. So where do I get ego-boo these days? Is the will to go on coming from social media? Number of likes in Facebook or Pinterest? Number of people adding me to circles in G+ or following me on Twitter? Comments on my blog? Friends in SL? Friendly conversations with co-workers?
Now I will say that Donald Trump encourages me to want to wring his neck. Man might as well wear a white sheet and demand “Hiel” salutes from the idiots who are cheering him. He is rapidly becoming a poster child for every radical anti-US organization who can use him and his words to tell others that this is really what America is all about. I feel a burning need to apologize to every Muslim, and to the world at large, begging folks to realize that he doesn’t represent me, or anything that I believe in, or even what the country stands for…. But what can I do about the amount of publicity his rants receive when he has the time and the money to spread his vicious creed?
So encouraged or not, I will continue living my life one day at a time. I will adhere as best I can to the golden rule, and live in peace with those around me of all faiths, ethnicity, gender, race, and all the other ways in which we can be different [altho I really prefer non-smokers these days]. And I will continue to hope the process of political polarization somehow slows and reverses itself and we actually get folks in office who have the country’s true welfare at heart.
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