Journal Friends

We’re running behind this morning.  We're sorry.  I think we picked up a “loss-of-time” bug at Vivian’s.  We figure that we should think things through over the next half hour, so we don’t worry to pieces after we get to work.  The worrying path is a mudslide!
 
This is our take on the morning so far, forgive us, but at heart … some of us within the system are “summarizerers!” We figure that between the groups of journalists we visit, we were shown a large set of dizzying emotions. 
 
We saw loneliness, silliness, blessedness, sadness, thoughtfulness, happiness, guilt, hurt, hope, anger, disappointment, self-deflation, frustration, thankfulness, earnestness, gratefulness, playfulness, helpfulness, deviousness, resourcefulness, imaginability, and heart brokenness. 
 
Each person we’d visited we were glad to have met again.  We figure each expression allows us a window view of another world.  There is no value judgment on “good” or “bad” emotions.  All of them are real and useful in our alivedness.  In-between these views we find sharing and supporting.  And it makes us feel happy to be a part of the whole.  Sometimes it seems to be a real test of our thinkerer parts.
 
If I were to slip on my work cap, I might think, “Ok, we’ve collected a lot of information, we’ve analyzed things down to a smaller workable unit … now do we continue to analyze, or do we respond?”  (We’re going to skip the part where we analyze our creativeness in developing new vocabularies.) 
 
Thinking there will be more time to analyze at another less rushed time.  Maybe just one group hug for now mixed with our encouragement of starting a brand new day.   Seems as if we’re all doing a pretty good gosh darn job at being human and we certainly didn’t see anyone who doesn’t care!  There is so much depth, a lot of effort, and a willingess to relate.  Love you guys!