Sunday, November 20, 2011

November 20, 2011

Wow.  One may start blogging with the deeply-held belief that it will only take fifteen or twenty minutes every other day or so to sit down at the computer, put fingers to keyboard, and type out some marvelously creative and insightful observations on life in middle Tennessee.  Because the focus of this blog is on training, one must be careful to link the topic of the day to bring it back home to training.  Well well well.  When one has stuffed one's calendar full of networking appointments (and one MUST have networking appointments to get the word out), and there is a minor car emergency in the family to deal with and a cat who needs a trip to the vet for a pressing problem , and one must seek a work/life balance by being sure to purchase appropriate and sensible Christmas gifts and all the ingredients necessary for a lovely Thanksgiving dinner, one becomes aware that one is likely to write in long run-on sentences, and unlike the fact that the sentences never seem to end,the work day does.  And then you wake up and it's late Sunday afternoon and you've only written one minor blog all week when you intended to get two, three, or four written.  Whew.

The good news is -- I marked some items off my "to do" list.  I got a good but ambitious idea from one of those networking contacts.  An idea about a product I could offer to potential employers of me, the freelancer who is just starting out.  I will be working on that idea this very week.  And, let's be honest, I will also be working on brining a turkey, cooking some cornbread and some biscuits, and wondering whether we actually have enough onions to see us through the T-Day lunch/dinner this week.  You know, there is a word that combines "breakfast" and "lunch" -- and of course that word is brunch.  Why isn't there a word that describes the late lunch, way early dinner meal?  I guess it's that neither linner nor dunch sounds very appetizing.  Food.  Big seasonal lunch/dinners are important for a number of reasons.  First of all, it's a special time when you make cornbread dressing the old fashioned and difficult way, chopping onions and celery for thirty minutes.  And it's important to see your family because when all else fails, they will be there for you.  Food is not only physical, then, it's also emotional, spiritual, familial.  It gives you a center, a core tradition.  It works because it is dependable and it gives you a chance to tell your family how much they mean to you.  And there's probably nothing more important than that.  Even busy networking doesn't hold a candle to the support you get from your family.  And that's why Thanksgiving duties trump new business blogging, and that's okay. 


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