Hi Everyone (that would be 3 of you, right? (grin))
I keep meaning to post a short entry about my new job - it's been 3 weeks now and I'm still loving it. Not that it's all perfect, but there is plenty for me to learn, reviewing contracts, and lots of great people to work with, and the very academic atmosphere, where folks dress to express without fear of recriminations, bulletin boards and groups grow freely, and we all work for the greater good.
Everyone who works there takes a cut in pay, but I'm very glad to be providing for the kids' futures. It's like a savings plan for their education, in a way, and if they all finish undergrad at WashU, I'll have earned more than I did on the "outside" all told.
I'm knitting a sweater for my neighbor, Loren, who has kidney cancer. It's a Prayer Sweater, closely akin to a Prayer Shawl, but for a guy. I love doing it. My other response to crisis is baking, which is also a regular thing these days.
I'm starting a prayer shawl for two local women, one the grandmother of a boy who died from heart failure, and whose other grandson is in custody for having shot and killed a police officer (yes, the two incidents are linked) and the other shawl for the widow of the police officer. It's had a big impact on Kirkwood, our suburb of St. Louis, and brought out the racial divide that exists here, much like most other cities. But what are people DOING about it?
Shalom and Tikkun Olam,
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Posted by Vicki at July 20, 2005 07:06 AM