"We wait in the silence and talk for a while": A few final thoughts on problem solving for tonight, thank you

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"We wait in the silence and talk for a while": A few final thoughts on problem solving for tonight, thank you

Sorry it's so late on a Sunday and I have got to work tomorrow of course.

But here are some final thoughts from my boss on our big, main problem solving call we did: my boss gave me some really amazing new blueprints for me to follow when I am problem solving.

As usual I know nothing - and I do not know why it has been so hard for me and why the last few months were how they were and why it took what it has taken for me to get here - but here we are now, nevermind. I did what I had to do.

I did what I could. And: "I did it for fun, I did it for free..." 🏞

Instructions from my Boss

  • This should take in this
  • This is how I want it to work, right?
    • I want it to take in this
    • And I want it to do this
  • THAT'S its job
    • And so you write it to do its job
  • And then you go on to the next one
  • And then you think about:
    • What is THAT thing's job?
AND THEN YOU JUST ITERATE IN THAT WAY

A graphic image of a full moon over a lake. text reads: so you won't get stranded, then?

Late on Saturday Night

I spoke to my meditation teacher. He asked me if I was okay.

I told him: "I don't know how to go on with my work." I meant: to find the energy to go on with my work. He looked away and said "I don't know sorry." It was so unlike him but then again he had just done a day with hundreds of attendees, he was shattered. I was almost his last conversation of the day. The whole room had to go up to him, meet him, hug him.

And he had answered loads of questions and led a guided meditation.

Maybe we idolise people sometimes.

Maybe Rupert doesn't know the answers to all the questions.

Why should he? But he did bring me back into the moment. He got me to talk about my train home and where I had come from and whether the storm would affect my journey home

And of course, that is my solution

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