03-17-2010, 02:22 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-17-2010, 02:27 PM by Questioner.)
I picture this discussion site as a giant picnic at a park. Some people are hanging out by the grill, cooking up veggie burgers for whoever wants one. Both kids and adults take turns on the swings. A few folks, and several dogs, are happily chasing Frisbees.
Underneath the big canvas tent, people come and go for some earnest conversations around the picnic tables. They wheeled in a chalk board to sketch out some diagrams. Unlike the famous cartoon, "then a miracle happens" is a perfectly acceptable next step in the equations! Animated discussions come from the bunch of folks around the board. Several people come over the hill now and then with news from the UFO's. I keep missing the saucers myself, but the reports of what the pilots had to say are very intriguing.
Occasionally someone sits off to the side a while, not as talkative as usual. Maybe they're just under the weather for a while.
While my health has been worse than usual, at the same time I've seen some ways that a long term investment of my time could help me make a career transition. Along with that has been quite a bit of chaos in my shared living situation. With all of that going on, I've been less active on the forum.
I've been more selective about the threads that happen to have an immediate resonance that makes it easy for me to comment. I'll come back to some of the deeper, more challenging topics I left hanging as I get more time with good mental focus.
I guess these kinds of ups and downs are just part of the flow of life for all of us.
I'm happy that the picnic goes on and I hope to be back in the tent soon for another turn with the chalk.
Meanwhile please save a burger with dijon mustard for me, OK?
Underneath the big canvas tent, people come and go for some earnest conversations around the picnic tables. They wheeled in a chalk board to sketch out some diagrams. Unlike the famous cartoon, "then a miracle happens" is a perfectly acceptable next step in the equations! Animated discussions come from the bunch of folks around the board. Several people come over the hill now and then with news from the UFO's. I keep missing the saucers myself, but the reports of what the pilots had to say are very intriguing.
Occasionally someone sits off to the side a while, not as talkative as usual. Maybe they're just under the weather for a while.
While my health has been worse than usual, at the same time I've seen some ways that a long term investment of my time could help me make a career transition. Along with that has been quite a bit of chaos in my shared living situation. With all of that going on, I've been less active on the forum.
I've been more selective about the threads that happen to have an immediate resonance that makes it easy for me to comment. I'll come back to some of the deeper, more challenging topics I left hanging as I get more time with good mental focus.
I guess these kinds of ups and downs are just part of the flow of life for all of us.
I'm happy that the picnic goes on and I hope to be back in the tent soon for another turn with the chalk.
Meanwhile please save a burger with dijon mustard for me, OK?