Re: Shinies and not-so shiny   
     By: Nancy Backus to Damon A. Getsman on Sat Aug 29 2015 19:28:36   
      
    NB> Always blindspots one misses... hopefully they don't broadside... ;)    
    NB> You'll not do a perfect job, no one can, but you'll probably do a quite   
    NB> passable one..  :)  It's the most any of us can hope for...  and no   
    NB> matter how close to perfect a job one does, it's still no guarantee that   
    NB> the kid turns out as we hope... but sometimes they turn out far better   
    NB> than we hope, too...  :)   
      
     No way I'm gonna be perfect.  ;)  Seriously, though, I think I'm pretty good   
   at seeing some of the areas where I dont do perfect.  I'm always trying to do a   
   little bit better, so I can at least say I'm improving.  Not that I wouldn't   
   benefit from more feedback on what I'm not necessarily doing right at any one   
   time, of course.  It's always helpful to get those blindspots pointed out.  How   
   else is one better to improve the issues that don't come in to focus with only   
   one's self?   
      
    NB> I think that was about reading your mom's manuscript...  :)   
      
     Oh yeah.  That is on my 'next to read' pile at the very top, still.  The   
   problem that I've found with my current arrangements is that I've only got the   
   1 room to work with here (the living room, even).  There is a chair to sit at   
   for the computer and a couch which I use as a bed, alternating, with a futon,   
   so that neither I nor my son get too bad of back issues from it.  The chair is   
   an office chair, and not really the best for reading.  So, if I try to go over   
   to the couch and read, I inevitably get drowsy due to my habituation of that   
   point being for sleep primarily.  I even have that with movies now, if I try to   
   watch them over there.  It's horribly inconvenient.  I should take advantage of   
   a few of the days that are still decent before it starts the constant winter   
   downpour here and try to get outside to a park to go through it or something,   
   probably.   
      
    NB> Not really... just the way I keep things in perspective...  the first   
    NB> bit, though, is a bit tongue in cheek, sorta...  :)   
      
     Oh I'm sorry.  That was remarkably callous of me.  I must've read that part   
   with a lower-case 'g'.  My apologies if my misunderstanding caused any offense.   
   I'm used to a circle of friends where the closest people to straight-up   
   christianity are people who go to a non-denominational church in order to help   
   the spiritual and moral lessons, but don't really believe in 'God' (capital G).   
   Being former cult kid and a secular Buddhist, I miss and cause offense now and   
   then. I certainly don't believe that we're anywhere near to the Earth being   
   stewarded to our full human potential (if we were all one with our Buddha-   
   selves), either.  ;)   
     Best wishes and moar soon, of course.  :)   
      
     -D   
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