Laura, you are doing great! You are making good choices, and it will pay off.
Thanks, all. I am happy to be home.
I also love the work I do. I love learning how to do it better, I love knowing that as I learn, I do better by the people I support.
Love isn't brains, children, it's blood, blood screaming inside you to work its will.
Spike ,'Sleeper'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
WindSparrow - Jun 03, 2021 10:20:49 pm PDT #6826 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Laura - Jun 04, 2021 5:12:36 am PDT #6827 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
It is such important work that you do, WindSparrow. The people you care for are so fortunate, and deserving, to receive your compassionate care.
It's Friday, and June already. How is this year going by so quickly? I remember Mom saying that the years are like a toilet paper roll in that they go faster and faster as you get older. Well, thanks for being right again there mother.
Laura - Jun 04, 2021 5:16:03 am PDT #6828 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
⭐ Toss the confetti and celebrate Dana's birthday today! ⭐ I do hope it is the very best year.
Calli - Jun 04, 2021 5:39:01 am PDT #6829 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Happy birthday, Dana!
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 04, 2021 7:34:29 am PDT #6830 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Happy Birthday, Dana!
Topic!Cindy - Jun 04, 2021 8:18:46 am PDT #6831 of 30000
What is even happening?
Happy birthday, Dana!
Matt, how's your mom?
meara - Jun 04, 2021 9:26:01 am PDT #6832 of 30000
Happy birthday Dana!!
How is it already June? I still feel like it’s MAYBE may….of 2020
shrift - Jun 04, 2021 11:09:47 am PDT #6833 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Happy birthday, Dana!
Dana - Jun 04, 2021 11:18:15 am PDT #6834 of 30000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Thank you, thank you. We went out to a Brazilian steak house for lunch, and I guess I'm not allowed to go right into a meat coma, but it's tempting.
WindSparrow - Jun 04, 2021 12:33:27 pm PDT #6835 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
That sounds like a properly indulgent birthday lunch, Dana! Hope the rest of the day is happy for you!
The people you care for are so fortunate, and deserving, to receive your compassionate care.
Laura, thanks.
The thing is, they are just people, they just want to live their lives, go to work, do their stuff, have some fun, have some friends, have some love in their lives. Yes, I care about these folks deeply. And so very yes, this job plays to my strengths and makes my ADHD weaknesses easy to work around. They aren't inspiring, I'm not a hero. We both walk and/or make use of mobility devices. We both talk and/or communicate without words. We both shop. We both sneeze. We both fight fires when the floods roll back.
But anyone who spends as much time singing, dancing, and laughing at work as I do, has a pretty good job.
ETA, I hope my tone here is not overbearing or harsh. I'm trying to be lyrical about the joy of the ordinary here.