Saturday we were amongst the first audience at the new Harvey B Gantt building, the new home for the Afro-American Cultural Center. It’s a beautiful building, incorporating an art gallery and community facilities. The building isn’t quite done yet — some interior work yet remains — but no matter.
We were there to attend a “Get to know Saffire The Uppity Blues Women” who are stopping as part of their final tour as a group. Mother Blues and Michael Porter lead the edutainment session where we collectively created and performed blues songs. Really enjoyable!
Afterwards, we went to Fuel for pizza, which is always great. When we left, we watched bemusedly as two fellows dressed as Ghostbusters trotted past, looking for something. Turns out there was a Great Urban Race occurring, sort of a fun-run/scavenger-hunt for charity.
I’m surprised sometimes when people complain to me about how hard their lives are.
No, that’s not right — I’m not really surprised by complaints.
I think I mean to say I am surprised at how far I have come from being in the ranks of the complaining and the Miserable by Choice. Somewhere along the line, my conscious and cynically self-conscious attempts to change my own thinking succeeded. It’s certainly not 100%. I still have days filled with self-pity. But it’s no longer weeks and months of focused attention on the inequalities of the world as relates to me. Which is just as well — because I don’t have it so bad, and I know that.
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So, what’s this Wordpress site doing here? Oh yes — I abandoned it when I had things to do.
Well, I have a job now. Actually, just celebrated my one year anniversary at the place. I’m happy there.
And I thought it was time for a new look. I’ll replace the pictures with some of mine over time. If I keep the new look.
I attended an e-workshop presented by the eChapter of APTI. The workshop was lead by Lynda Trommelen, who spoke about how Type affects response to change/loss and how to use the insights of Type to assist folks adjusting to change/loss.
One of the charts that Lynda presented originated with Recovery from Loss: A Personalized Guide to the Grieving Process, by Tagliaferre and Harbaugh, who suggested that the function order affects how we work through change. After redrawing the chart, I realized I was fixated on the attitudes of the functions, not on the functions themselves. Once I cleared this hurdle, it all made much more sense. Upon reflection, I realized that I did step through change in the suggested order, as did those family members whose Types had been verified.
As for me, I also admit I will get hung up during the process and need a kick in a direction — it would be nice to know which way I need to boot myself along. This chart suggests a path for getting unstuck. 
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