Mental Ruminations

I always wish I could be a better wordsmith than I am. In particular I think of JM and AL who I find to be amazingly adept in their use of language.

The last few days have been totally and entirely chaotic for me. Big highs and lows in my personal life and relationships as well as being hugely stretched professionally.

I went to a mentoring workshop this last week. To begin with it was an amazing expereince, and I'm sure I'll post more on this later. But off the cuff, I gotta say, it brough up so much for me in so many ways: fears, moments of pride and accomplishment, a feeling of "where do I go from here?", a bit more clarity of the fact that there's so many things that I want to do professionally....

I want to be a vampire only because I feel like that is the only way I will ever be able to do all that I want to do. I will finally have the time to do it.

One question that comes up regularly in my line of work is how did one get involved in this particular field. I started to think a lot about that lately, as well as who I consider to be my teachers and mentors in my life. For the most part, my professional life and personal life are totally intertwined, so those that are my personal mentors/teachers are usually also my professional mentors/teachers.

I want to pay tribute to those that have made a huge contribution to me becoming who I am as a person/professional; I feel I owe them a debt of gratitude. I have spent the last hour or so mulling that over. I have started my Story; how I got to be where I am and the People that I have to thank for it. I'll post it in chapters soon. But for now, back to ruminating.