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 used to pride myself on having a “done” switch. There are times that I have flicked it purposefully, there are times when something just clicks all on its own. I don’t always know what triggers it, but I always can feel when it happens. And I can tell you that something changed yesterday – changed, shifted, altered, moved, shuffled, commutated, switched…. Hey, wait a minute! Maybe I don’t have to have a “switch” that is either on/off. Maybe I have a dial where I can choose the volume/bandwidth!
All I know is that for the first time in forever, I went to sleep with a smile.
I have been going back into memory lane quite a bit of late, courtesy of that app in Facebook. On this day, six years ago, I had my first interview with Devin. On this day last year, I had just arrived in WDW and was starting a great vacation with Cheryl and Ricky, which included Star Wars Weekend, the 24 hours celebration [we didn’t make it much past dark and it was way too hot to wear our costumes] and the Disney Dream .
Gem had an assignment when she graduated from high school to ask their parents questions -- she didn't have much to ask Chuck so I got most of them. She and Tom asked me "if I could change the past, what would I change?" They had often heard the story about how I blitzed out of my mother's house and landed with Bob that fall night in 1971 -- which being a good little Catholic girl, meant that Bob and I got married. They both thought that is what I would change, because if I hadn't married Bob then I wouldn't have married Chuck either. To their surprise I said that I wouldn't change anything. Why? Because without Bob I wouldn't have had Tom and without Chuck I wouldn't have had Gem, and there was nothing that I would change that would imperil having my kids in my life.. Yesterday, knowing that I was going to meet Kevin, I was thinking a lot about C&F, organizational change, being an active agent of that change, and how I used to find an isolated place on the rooftop and cry my eyes out over things that were happening. I told him about that, shaking my head at how het up I was, and he replied "are you telling me you have grown up?" My swift rejoinder, "Do I have too? Do I have to grow up and do I have to tell you about it:?" We both laughed.
AND I can repeat my mantra with every evidence of complete confidence: “I want to see myself as [1] a vibrant, caring, intelligent woman [2] who abides by the consequences of her past choices without living in regret [3] and looks with optimism to the future.”
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