“The instructor has a responsibility to the students to provide an open,

affirming, intellectually-invigorating environment which inspires and facilitates learning.

I'll have to remember this.

breaking the lines

today I had pleasant news
unexpected news
and proof to myself of changes I need to make
in my self-perspective
my disappointments
and moods
the analytitical side

I'm so glad my friend called and told me this news
because it was ever so important
and almost made me cry with happiness

On a side note and thought
my classmate said to me quietly in the OR yesterday
we are almost at the 6 month mark
and it felt so good to hear this

Lori Pensini

angry people

 "Do you want your happiness to depend on whether other people act the way you want them to act? Or do you want your happiness to come from your ability to respond to life in harmony with what you value?"

No, not really, is my response.
The world I work in seems to be surrounded by people who are constantly trying to blame others for one thing or another.  This is even when nothing has gone wrong.  But when something does go wrong,, boy do people want to point fingers.
Today, someone tried to blame me for something when really they had done it themselves.  At first in my head I was about to defend myself, but then I just decided that I had both the power & the skills to fix what they had messed up and that I wasn't going to argue with this person about how they had just lost this line when they were drawing blood from it.
A lot of this happens though- this kind of compensation all the time- and I wonder if that too will eventually take its' toll on people. 
I know when I have to compensate all the time for someone even if it's just in a relationship- it is tiring.
Oh well, I am surrounded by lots of angry people all the time- but that is their problem not mine.

If you don't let your imagination fly, who will?

possibly maybe