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Emotional wish list
I’m feeling better today. In addition to the moodiness I was working on a headache for the latter half of the day. I went to bed, slept poorly, and went to gym this morning anyway. But I started to change during the gym session. It started with me giving myself permission to not do anything strenuous. I still had the headache. I wasn’t my best. The point was not to worry about whether or not I was getting my money’s worth or putting in a gold star performance. Because of this little change in attitude, I was able to see that I’ve been hard on myself and I need to…
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An earful
Today was an earful. I tried to speak to my son this morning about his beligerant and direspectful attitude. What he told me was that he wasn’t accountable to me. I went to work and heard our new chancellor speak about how we need to keep student focused and that our success will depend on new ideas and focused direction. What he told us was that there are going to be budget cuts and they are going to hurt. I called my sister to discuss travel arrangements for our uncles funeral next week. What I heard was the story of my grandmother in the final phases of her life, and…
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Donald Bagger 2014
Tuesday morning, my sister called me to tell me that my uncle had died. I am sitting here at the end of Wednesday knowing that I need to write to get this processed in some way, but not knowing what to say exactly. This was my mother’s brother, the only sibling that she had. He wasn’t a content in my life. He’s been estranged from various parts of the family off and on, usually of his own choosing. At the time of his death (which at this point, we think was two weeks ago) he was living in Green Bay. It all makes for a very disjointed story. I found…