taking a brief breath

let the brain and body fall asleep early last night, the sun was still up at the time, and woke naturally a couple of hours ago... moved clothes from the washer to the dryer... then sat here and explored a bit... most of this month i have been away from the internet, the blogging, the facebook, the twitter (i did not realize that i ignored twitter since july... and nobody missed me, go figure... my online presence is so deeply incognito, so unintrusive, so invisible most of the time... occasionally on facebook i engage in conversations, but i do not keep in touch with anyone on any sort of frequent basis online anymore on any sites in any way... i miss those i used to call friends online... and in a strangely warm and genuinely meaningful way, treasure the few who occasionally reconnect with a few words for brief moments... even those i never actually met offline... life is like that, i suppose, we make of it what we want it to be and choose what matters to us in our minds)...

the new work life does not allow much free time for pondering anything these days as i am expanding my work connections, building working relationships and learning more systems each day... this week i started modifying some and creating new systems to provide needed structure for the management team, holding our first management meeting on monday to lay out the first steps for reorganization for them and yesterday i visited sister facilities in tampa, connecting with a senior DON (director of Nursing) there to enlist her help as a consultant for my DON who is very new to administrative nursing and needs to build her confidence, assertiveness, supervisory, and medical decision-making skills... nurses typically rely on doctors for most medical decisions, but a DON in an ICF must make many more decisions, including medical decision, than the average nurse... it's a learning curve that can take time, but it starts with active support and i helped set that up for her yesterday... then i had lunch and met with my counterpart at the tampa ICF... some questions answers, some war stories shared, and another bridge built...

so this morning i took a few hours to enjoy my time, the mostly silent stillness of night... it is a cool night, no air conditioner needed, patio door and windows open, lots of green life breathing fresh air into my lungs, and a quiet darkness under a twinkling sky...

into the office

first day free of the orientation tether, so now begins the on-the-job training which i sense will be as much up to me as anyone else as my supervisor does not have much time (who has time, anyway?)... explore, research, be responsible and all that cuz that is what good bosses are supposed to do... chill a little, don't be too excited, relax and be cool and confident and enjoy the experience... listen to people, respect everyone, choose each action carefully, take each step deliberately, though tread lightly and carefully and remember to smile...

make it a wonderful new day :)

a new life crawls into view

starting a two week orientation to be followed by a week or few of transfer-of-powers does not provide a clear demarcation of changing a life or lifestyle, though waking before the sunrise and putting on office clothes and driving in rush hour traffic to sit in a room and listen to others for nine hours yesterday for the first time in more than a year does make for a reasonable crossover from the life of leisurely semi-retirement to the rat race of the working life, so the new job starts here... cue the waterboys... or queue...



if you find a link to the song i referenced, let me know and it shall appear here
until then, we rely on three of the most important things in life
imagination, memory, and trust