Reader-Believer

Saturday, September 16, 2023

Happy Rosh Hashanah!

I read the old letters my friend Linda had stashed, forgotten, and recently rediscovered. I wrote them when we were in our thirties after she had left Kansas City and was living in LA. Several months ago, she sent those letters. I had hesitated to read them but settled in to revisit a bit of my youth last evening.

Reading them brought surprises and was fun. My letters were full of conflicts about decisions facing me that created anxiety. I wrote of them to Linda, my mentor and encourager. Last night, I realized that, even back then, I was articulating some complex brain workings.

Perhaps that’s a direct line to today when I enjoy blogging. Writing those early letters taught me that thinking and writing can enhance the comprehension of what’s happening around and within oneself.

I had forgotten my mighty struggle over whether to study law. It turned out that I followed my preferences by taking another direction. I studied the humanities, becoming a scholarly expert on the management of organizations. I learned that sustaining viability directly involves managing people well at all levels while addressing larger goals.

Those days of youth are past. Today, my way-inner self sees a new good year beginning.

Dear Friends: I am on my way out now to address yet another failing fence post. Diana