music, therapy, and me

My missing client has been found alive. That's all that I am allowed to say about the circumstances, but at least this had a relatively good ending. I am not good in situations like this. I tend to feel way too much and so I try to disconnect myself from emotion when things are uncertain. I also tend to spend way too much time imagining worst case scenarios and getting myself ready for what could happen rather than doing much of anything else. The conclusion to this story is an answer to prayer. As I was driving into the sun yesterday afternoon, I prayed for a resolution to this situation because the not knowing what was happening was affecting all of us. We needed an answer, so I asked for an answer. We went to sleep not knowing what was going on but knowing that everyone who could was looking for this person. I awoke very early this morning and felt that we knew something. I didn't find out that this person had been found, alive and unharmed, until I got myself up and over to...

It is the first day of the school year, 2016-2 0 17, and I am currently up at a very early hour, thinking about going outside to see if I can see any of the Perseid meteors and then making my way down to my place of employment. As I am doing these things, I am also thinking about my job. It is easy to get bogged down in the things that I don't like about my job - you can't really escape from things you don't like - but in the past 20 years (yes, I've been at this facility for that long), the good things about my job have always outnumbered the bad things. That's the kind of job to look for; a place where the good outnumbers the bad. What's the best part of my job? The best part of my job is the fact that I get to make music with people. This is a simplistic description, of course, but is one that is at the core of my choice of this profession. I have always loved working with people and helping them find solutions to their challenges. I also feel that I ...