As I thought about it, I have had a bunch of interesting experiences lately … mostly related to talking to real live people. I sat next to a woman on the plane back from Chicago who turned out to be both an end-of-life nurse and an Episcopal priest. She noticed me reading Ethics for a New Millennium by the Dalai Lama and wanted to talk. She wound up asking for references on “the sort of Buddhism I was describing.” I felt like I had done good.
Last night, sat at the bar having dinner next to a man who had run restaurants for 25 years, and then was a firefighter. He wound up going to Louisiana after hurricane Katrina, and hiring on full time with FEMA. Neat guy.
Finally, I had an ego boost today: After a few of us wrestled most of the afternoon with a thorny technical problem, I finally just said “oh,” and resolved it with a single command. The others sat quiet for a moment, and then one of them said “Okay, that doesn’t count. You can’t just guess and have it work like that.”
Apparently I can.
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