Work was better today albeit it didn’t start so pretty. A few phone calls this morning set a mood that was so palpable – the Flower and I had to do some gris gris to get rid of it. The good thing about having done this work for a while now is that you know “this too shall pass” and basically you can apply any cliche to workaday life – “whoa what an asshole” – “I can’t believe I just wasted an hour of my time” – but in my job there are a lot of “am I the luckiest person in the world” – “I can’t believe how smart the people I work with are” – it’s the balance of good and evil that make it worth your while. <\/p>\n
I think my first therapist years ago – the one that looked like Dr. Ruth because she was so short she had a stool to get on her chair – she said you leave when the balance tips – the bad starts weighing the scale down more than the good. That’s the measure of stick-to-itness. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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