Dang it Dan
I seem to have fallen into a real funk over the last couple of days. I just can't figure things out. Friendships are drifting, friendships are appearing, people are crabby and trying to one up each other on every little thing (I'm not claiming to be innocent). I just feel like that atmosphere of everyone wanting to be here and wanting to learn and to teach has lost its sparkle. And because of this attitude, the Dunes themselves have started to dull in my mind. I know that I need to just breathe and shake it all out, but I'm afraid that I won't have time to do that until this weekend...and that might be too late. I know that there are some people that I have not given a fair chance to, and that's something that I need to work on. At the same time, there are others with whom I had no issues coming into this, and yet things just aren't flowing the way that they would in my ideal world. I'm really scared for one of the girls, even though I know that she's a big girl and can handle herself, things are getting progressively closer to not good. I just don't want to see anything happen to her because of anything that might come up. Overall, the new staff is great though. Our two new folks are awesome, and the two "veterans" have been incredibly helpful and a wonderful resource to all of us. My new goal: Find a way for us to rediscover our sparkle[s]!