Re: Shinies and not-so shiny
  By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Sat Aug 29 2015 19:28:36

 NB> Always blindspots one misses... hopefully they don't broadside... ;) 
 NB> You'll not do a perfect job, no one can, but you'll probably do a quite
 NB> passable one..  :)  It's the most any of us can hope for...  and no
 NB> matter how close to perfect a job one does, it's still no guarantee that
 NB> the kid turns out as we hope... but sometimes they turn out far better
 NB> than we hope, too...  :)

  No way I'm gonna be perfect.  ;)  Seriously, though, I think I'm pretty good
at seeing some of the areas where I dont do perfect.  I'm always trying to do a
little bit better, so I can at least say I'm improving.  Not that I wouldn't
benefit from more feedback on what I'm not necessarily doing right at any one
time, of course.  It's always helpful to get those blindspots pointed out.  How
else is one better to improve the issues that don't come in to focus with only
one's self?

 NB> I think that was about reading your mom's manuscript...  :)

  Oh yeah.  That is on my 'next to read' pile at the very top, still.  The
problem that I've found with my current arrangements is that I've only got the
1 room to work with here (the living room, even).  There is a chair to sit at
for the computer and a couch which I use as a bed, alternating, with a futon,
so that neither I nor my son get too bad of back issues from it.  The chair is
an office chair, and not really the best for reading.  So, if I try to go over
to the couch and read, I inevitably get drowsy due to my habituation of that
point being for sleep primarily.  I even have that with movies now, if I try to
watch them over there.  It's horribly inconvenient.  I should take advantage of
a few of the days that are still decent before it starts the constant winter
downpour here and try to get outside to a park to go through it or something,
probably.

 NB> Not really... just the way I keep things in perspective...  the first
 NB> bit, though, is a bit tongue in cheek, sorta...  :)

  Oh I'm sorry.  That was remarkably callous of me.  I must've read that part
with a lower-case 'g'.  My apologies if my misunderstanding caused any offense.
I'm used to a circle of friends where the closest people to straight-up
christianity are people who go to a non-denominational church in order to help
the spiritual and moral lessons, but don't really believe in 'God' (capital G).
Being former cult kid and a secular Buddhist, I miss and cause offense now and
then. I certainly don't believe that we're anywhere near to the Earth being
stewarded to our full human potential (if we were all one with our Buddha-
selves), either.  ;)
  Best wishes and moar soon, of course.  :)

  -D
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