So much on my mind! Where should I start?
Yesterday, my husband asked me what I want my career to be. Usually, I have a list of possibilities, and I put maybe three on the top of the list. Somehow, when Jon asked me, I had just 1 answer.
I want to retire from a position of Vice President in Charge of Donations and Charitable Events, from a Non Profit Organization. I want my career to be a testament (big or small) to Compassion.
That's what I want. When my career is over, I want to have spent the majority of my productive years entrenched in a push for the positive. I think once I hit my retirement (if I ever reach that point), the ideal place has arrived to look back on my choices. I am seriously, geniunely yearning for the opportunity to work a job that delivers on the promise of a job that is rewarding.
In other news, thanks to the Poet House tweet earlier that really got my mind going a mile a minute. "Philly kids want their city to be known for poetry, not mobs." When was the last time we considered something so basic? To sit down and really think about how the news stories we gobble down from CNN, Fox News and satellite news outlets must make local inhabitants feel. Do you want to live in the city known for violent kids portrayed as unruly, thoughtless, destrictive? Especially if you are one of the kids that had nothing whatever to do with the violence.
Sometimes poetry is worth far more because of the salve it can be, the easing it can bring, when the rawness of new "extremism" and "rhetoric-driven" messages flooding every outlet. Disagree about politics, faith, what it all means: the beauty of a sunset still moves, the still moments with the people closest to our hearts, the ease of the end of the day when we feel like we accomplished something... There are still, and will always be, universal feelings.
I won't let anything make me forget that.
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