Tuesday, January 20, 2004

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Out with Andy Curry tonight in Brick Lane. For those in distant lands, this is the China Town of India. It is near to Liverpool Street Station, the City and the Greenbelt office. It is the home to a wealth of beautiful Curry Houses which is tempting to lots of City of London workers and us!

I am listening to radio 3 as I blog with the two usual late night non-animal, non-human friends. It has been a busy day and still more work to do after this. Stink, I need to be up early in the morning because the gas man is coming to maintain the boiler. Then I will be working until midnight tomorrow. My usual sleep-in-a-bit is lost!

I am away a lot this week so my blogs my stutter like the train I returned to Romford on tonight. Hmmm I love the iMac as I travel. Listening to the Outkast album for the last couple of days and I am sure it will stretch to another two. It is so fresh and crisp with quality. It really dashes around my ears and demands a listen.

Thinking about today:-
I have been blogging about behaviour because I am confronted with negative examples in my work. It damages the giver and receiver. It seems to me that obnoxious behaviour is like an octopus squirting out murky torrents to cloud the feelings of hurt and uncomfortable emotion. The articulate squirt out words. The tough squirt violence or aggression. The Clever squirt out wit or escapist humour..
What do you squirt out.?

Now to be fair, I must answer that myself but will give you a minute to enable you to reflect and consult your soul.
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I try to squirt positives, humour, human touch, facial expression.
But
that is ducking the question.
I pause to think.
When I feel inadequate and threatened .......
I squirt clouds of ....... glibness, joky-ness, self confidence, and passion.
My life of training has made me, helped me, hindered me so that I don't lose my temper and shout and scream.

Cannot believe I clicked that but I had to dig deep and be honest about something new.
Like us all, it seems to me, I cannot always bear the self-confrontation that reflection brings. Like us all, I need to talk that out with people so I can make it more real and learn from it.

whew ........... never intended a blog like this.
Thats a benefit from reflection I guess.

bhp