Howling winds beyond darkened panes...icy rain pelting glass...this morning I am glad I set my
morning alarm for 5:30. Baby, Orient is cold outside! Sis' boyfriend texts a photo of Madison's first
snowfall. Connecticut teachers and schoolkids have the season's first two-hour school delay. Todayheralds in a new era for those of us who live East and Midwest ... the
freezin' season of our work year.
Naturally, I adjust! I decide to practice yoga on my mat beside my warm bed for the next hour. This
makes much more sense on a frosty morning as I imagine the biting alternative. My inner Mother-
Father are pleased their now middle-aged daughter no longer needs to unnecessarily brave harsh
elements ...nothing left to prove to self weathering the world.
So instead of being sucked out the front door by a ferocious North Wind... only to turn my latest
umbrella inside out, I simply tune into muscles on my mat ... delighted to stretch deeply, warmly.
Crossing the Long Island Sound outside, snow becomes slushy flakes...an hour later, Mattituck will
report it's first snow just like it's sister to the north, Madison!
We know the weather shapes us ... from our choice to curl under covers for another ten and skip the shower to where we decide to take up residence in our world. Warm and dry climate? Dramatic change of seasons? Gentle seasonal shifts? What will it be? Where we choose to live engaging our livelihood can be deliberate or just handed down to us. My sister (nurse)and her boyfriend (teacher) clearly live and work where they do deliberately...both texted, "YEAH!" at the sign of first snow this morning.
The same level of deliberate engagement can characterize our day's work. I like to be around people who love who they are while they are working. They sizzle with enthusiasm, they speak in passionate tones, they care about making a difference. But these same two people (nurse and teacher) when interviewed reported that as young adults, they chose their fields from among the sources of work available
-at that time.
Do we have an inner compass, acting on our behalf ... a kind of Career Yenta -detecting a good match between our personal resources and work fields of possibilities? A good match allows the space to say,"YEAH!" in our work's freezin season.
Did the nurse and the teacher detect spaciousness in their respective fields? Spaciousness that allowed them to wend their way to the just right form of nursing, and level/discipline in teaching? A couple of blogs back addresses the importance of "spaciousness" in our lives. Perhaps most fields of work offer an element of spaciousness to those who enter with proclivity for the thinking, the dispositions, the necessaries of the "job requirements."
How does "spaciousness" play out in
your field of endeavor? your place of
work? autonomy in the decisions you
make daily that matter?
How does spaciousness -or lack
thereof- determine when we stay, andwhen we leave?
How does spaciousness in our work shape us, and in turn allow us to shape the character of our work? allow us to leave our passionate mark upon the
field in which we live out our livelihood? make our contributions of merit?
Thoughts??? Blog, blog, blog...
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