This morning we're feeling kind of rushed. The night before we had only a couple of hours sleep, then last night we stayed at the Center working until 7:30 pm. We justified staying late because of a deadline and having missed a couple hours in the morning. Today, we slept in late to recover.
Yesterday, we set the agenda with Dr. M. to be going over the on-line journals, looking at the pictures we'd collected, and talking about writing a book.
It was a lot of information for one hour's time. His computer was down so we had to use our memory. Could only remember though two entries. We remembered the kindergarten report card and the bucket analogy. We'd had new ideas toward the analogy. We've come to think of the buckets themselves as being the different parts and Dr. M. the geologist mining the rocks. Although the parts seem to handle the load of the rocks, it might not be wise to force Dear Heart to be bearing such a difficult load. Sometimes the buckets get bumped and rocks spill out on her head.
The pictures took a long time ... 'bout a half hour. We had planned to hand him the stack, but we ended up giving him the pictures one at a time. We wanted to control the flow a bit. We were pleased that Dr. M. was taking the time to look at them carefully. But, then he's always patient and careful! We're trying to accept that we were pretty and precious all along. These are concepts we never ever heard growing up. We were given quite a lot of negatives. Now we're wondering if we can give up some of these rocks. We seem to be hard pressed to let them go. It might be a bent sense of duty and responsibility.
The part about wanting to write it very strong, yet cautious. Dr. M. thought it was a good idea, so that gave us encouragement. At this stage, we are trying to balance the excitement of writing with the knowledge that we still have to be doing our work at work and taking care of maintenance tasks at home. We need to rebalance the loads. Efficiency is in order!
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