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cruel to be kind

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Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we're guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don't necessarily think of it spiritual guidance. Julia Cameron
Spirituality can release blocks, lead you to ideas, and make your life artful. Sometimes when we pray for guidance, we’re guided in unexpected directions. We may want a lofty answer and we get the intuition to clean our bedroom. It can seem so humble and picky and that you don’t necessarily think of it spiritual guidance.
Julia Cameron

the last week has flashed by me with a potpourri of memories like a 3 day music festival. i inherited the phalanges of an organization that has operated under an agreement field that is miles away from the world in which i inhabit.

i was under the impression that i could work with all the players on the team, but a larger truth soon reared its head and insisted that there would need to be a proverbial lightening of the load before anybody could start to travel up the long road ahead.

i think the least favorite part of any job i have ever inhabited has been the release of any person from service or services. i am beginning to realize that a small (or otherwise) business is very much like a family. if a family member’s behaviors are causing undue discord and that member refuses to change those behaviors then it is a call for tough love.

tough love often comes wrapped in words like “no”, “no more”, “good luck with your next chapter”.

the new gig has offices and so i am touching base with each entity and performing any edits deemed . two locations have seemed especially toxic. the editing process is in full swing and the removal of polyps, cysts, and warts is nearly complete.

my naivete reveals itself again. i forget that there is real racism and homophobia in our midst and how poisonous it is to health and healthcare. and how it hurts the people around me and ultimately me, too.

Oh, I can’t take another heartache
Though you say you’re my friend, I’m at my wit’s end
You say your love is bona fide
But that don’t coincide with the things that you do
And when I ask you to be nice, you say

You gotta be
Cruel to be kind in the right measure
Cruel to be kind it’s a very good sign
Cruel to be kind means that I love you
Baby, you gotta be cruel to be kind

Well, I do my best to understand, dear
But you still mystify and I want to know why
I pick myself up off the ground
To have you knock me back down again and again
And when I ask you to explain you say

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chameleon

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The increased importance of Information and Communications Technology in modern business practice presents myriad strategic and tactical challenges. What specific qualities does a Chief Information Officer require in order to survive? Via a thorough review of the extant literature, this paper considers eight essential characteristics of the successful CIO in light of a guiding metaphor − the chameleon.
The increased importance of Information and Communications Technology in modern business practice presents myriad strategic and tactical challenges. What specific qualities does a Chief Information Officer require in order to survive? Via a thorough review of the extant literature, this paper considers eight essential characteristics of the successful CIO in light of a guiding metaphor − the chameleon.

the days now flit and fly around and through my nexus like hummingbirds on hibiscus. i rock and i roll with the onset of putting out fires and answering questions, calming fears, counseling colleagues, creating collaboration.  i am learning so much about what i thought i had forgotten. i still have some communication skills. thank heaven for that.

a living being’s sense of purpose and usefulness may very well be directly linked to well being. i cannot remember feeling so connected and calmly directed.

“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don’t fit into their box are weird. But I’ll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.”
― C. JoyBell C.

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howl

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“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.” ― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

a silver lining in the sky has recently been revealed in my world. it is completely unexpected and its warmth has emanated to my core. i don’t know where it will lead or how long it will be in my world, however i intend to do my very best to bask in the light of the spirit. i am nonplussed. all i can do is scream through the fear and run towards the light. thank you universe for the opportunity to be surprised. and thank you friends for believing in me when i am not sure i was able to believe in myself.

I’m coming out
I want the world to know
Got to let it show
I’m coming out
I want the world to know
I got to let it show

There’s a new me coming out
And I just had to live
And I wanna give
I’m completely positive
I think this time around
I am gonna do it
Like you never knew it
Ooh, I’ll make it through

The time has come for me
To break out of this shell
I have to shout
That I am coming out

….. lyrics bernard evans and nile rogers..

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