Finding Truths

Finding truths. We spent a good amount of time yesterday on discovery.  We will have to concentrate on it some more today.

The first event of the day, was a client coming through our door. She was in terrible tears and sobbing loudly. We know of this individual that she's usually in good spirit, but sometimes feels overburdened by her sense of another’s rejection. She needed help in figuring out what had just happened to her. She was saying that her DSP (teacher) had yelled at her for dropping a box.

We decided that since words were hard for her that we would write her thoughts out on paper in the form of a letter to her DSP. She said she’d rather have the DSP smile and her too, so we added a picture of her smiling and an image of a flower. She is very artistic. Within moments of her presenting this communication to the staff, they were both back in my office. The DSP was able to convey to the individual and me she had "yelled out" the individual’s name, because she thought she’d been hurt and was worried over her.

So cool ... two truths each shared, progressed the other!

Another event ... I felt the need to tidy my intake project. I knew we were getting close to having the ten clients apply that we had room for this year. Between me and the high school counselor (we get the people out of high school when they reach 21 years), we’d figured out where they would all fit within our schema at the Center. We knew that soon the Center would need to commit to a new teacher.  We proudly handed this document over to Sr. Tess.

Sr. Tess has got a terrible chill, but remains sitting on her vigil wrapped and shivering in a sweater. She looked at me and in hardly more than a calm whisper asked, "Are these people joining us before the State inspection?" It was like in equally low of a voice, we admitted, "Umm no... we’ll go take care of that right away."

Sometimes, we seem to just crawl through life. Again two truths.

Funny how reality works, really. I love the question, "Are we on the same page?" Sometimes, our mind is so flooded by a variety of circumstances, that we can hardly see fit to paddle down one stream without wanting to try another. We call this, "Being confused." Hmm, maybe it’s more a matter of looking at "the bigger picture?" Yeeks, does this mean we have to assume MORE responsibility? We better be getting back to you here on this one!