Good Day -- *More* Than Good, Actually
Today I had one of the best days I've had in a very long time.
Last night I did a full session of my hermetic ritual practice, and that left me grounded and peaceful. I haven't posted much about my spiritual work recently, but I've been having a marvelous time beginning to explore Qabalah (not as a change of path, but part of the current one). It's been ages since my brain has been stretched this dramatically.
Over the past few days I've been enjoying an utterly unexpected and delightfully moving e-correspondence with a fellow theater department alum from my college years -- literally the last person from those days who I would have expected to contact me. It wasn't that we didn't like each other, we just moved in very different circles. Twenty years after we graduated, I'm finding out a little bit about what it was like to be him then, and finding out what a delightful person he is now.
He wrote to invite me to a reunion party at his home in Westwood/LA on May 2nd. If I had just received an Evite I probably would have declined with thanks. Instead, I'm starting to look at air fares. I'm going to play jet-setter and fly to LA for party, then home the next day -- or maybe catch a red-eye that night! Just be impulsive and daring.
I just re-read this, and should mention: it's not a romantic thing. He's gay. It's just that if I can enjoy getting to know this person again after all those years, who else might I enjoy re-connecting with?
I continue to receive wonderful feedback from my teams at the office who tell me how happy they are for me and how sad they are to lose me. "What are we going to do without you?!" they cry. The directors in today's staff meeting cut me off from telling them how much I would miss them, saying that I still had a few days left (4!) and they didn't want to start crying now. And these were the men! Also, everyone shudders when I tell them that Miss V will be supporting Dave until my replacement is hired, which of course is gratifying. (4 days and I probably will never have to deal with her again!!!)
After the staff meeting I took a friend to lunch for her birthday, and that felt good. It felt good to have a friend at work, and it felt good to do something nice for her.
In the early afternoon I had a great meeting with my favorite director, a man who has given me great support and coaching in the past and who said he was honored when I asked him if he would be my mentor as I moved on in my career.
After that I had a great meeting with my new boss's boss -- and found myself excited and energized about my job for the first time since the rocket company went out of business. He also approved me to take a vacation day so I could go to the reunion party, even though there was a major business meeting planned for that day. Team meetings happen a lot more often than 20-year reunions, he told me. You should definitely go.
So it looks like I may well start to enjoy my work life again.
And I think I've been losing some weight.
Life is good.
Last night I did a full session of my hermetic ritual practice, and that left me grounded and peaceful. I haven't posted much about my spiritual work recently, but I've been having a marvelous time beginning to explore Qabalah (not as a change of path, but part of the current one). It's been ages since my brain has been stretched this dramatically.
Over the past few days I've been enjoying an utterly unexpected and delightfully moving e-correspondence with a fellow theater department alum from my college years -- literally the last person from those days who I would have expected to contact me. It wasn't that we didn't like each other, we just moved in very different circles. Twenty years after we graduated, I'm finding out a little bit about what it was like to be him then, and finding out what a delightful person he is now.
He wrote to invite me to a reunion party at his home in Westwood/LA on May 2nd. If I had just received an Evite I probably would have declined with thanks. Instead, I'm starting to look at air fares. I'm going to play jet-setter and fly to LA for party, then home the next day -- or maybe catch a red-eye that night! Just be impulsive and daring.
I just re-read this, and should mention: it's not a romantic thing. He's gay. It's just that if I can enjoy getting to know this person again after all those years, who else might I enjoy re-connecting with?
I continue to receive wonderful feedback from my teams at the office who tell me how happy they are for me and how sad they are to lose me. "What are we going to do without you?!" they cry. The directors in today's staff meeting cut me off from telling them how much I would miss them, saying that I still had a few days left (4!) and they didn't want to start crying now. And these were the men! Also, everyone shudders when I tell them that Miss V will be supporting Dave until my replacement is hired, which of course is gratifying. (4 days and I probably will never have to deal with her again!!!)
After the staff meeting I took a friend to lunch for her birthday, and that felt good. It felt good to have a friend at work, and it felt good to do something nice for her.
In the early afternoon I had a great meeting with my favorite director, a man who has given me great support and coaching in the past and who said he was honored when I asked him if he would be my mentor as I moved on in my career.
After that I had a great meeting with my new boss's boss -- and found myself excited and energized about my job for the first time since the rocket company went out of business. He also approved me to take a vacation day so I could go to the reunion party, even though there was a major business meeting planned for that day. Team meetings happen a lot more often than 20-year reunions, he told me. You should definitely go.
So it looks like I may well start to enjoy my work life again.
And I think I've been losing some weight.
Life is good.