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Education. Not too long ago, my stepdad made me an offer: if I want to go back to school, he'd help me pay for it. A refreshing change from what my dad always said from the time I was about 10 years old: "You can go to college if you want, but we ain't payin' for it." Lately I've been thinking a lot about taking him up on that offer, but I am not sure how I'm going to juggle work and school just yet, much less what or where I might study.
Effervescent. Ah, I love that word.
Eckankar. Back in the day, I used to work at this pro photo lab called Universal Colour (yes, they spelled it with a U). One of the lab's regular customers was a "church" called Eckankar, and while the representatives who stopped in to drop off rolls of photos seemed friendly, I always got a weird vibe from them. Their pictures were always of what looked like potluck dinners or other similar social gatherings, so I never really thought much of the Eckankar people other than my amusement that their "church" was called The Temple of Eck. Wasn't until years later that I heard the name Eckankar again in a discussion about cults.
Can you tell I'm reaching on the "E"?
Empathy. All my life, I've had trouble empathizing with people, even those that I love. I've often found myself forgetting birthdays, unknowingly saying things that hurt people's feelings, or not doing or saying something when I should to make someone feel better or give comfort. I've got a serious streak of oblivious when it comes to other people's feelings, especially in sad or painful situations. I didn't realize I had this shortcoming until a few years ago, but now I try to make up for it whenever I can. I suspect that part of my problem is my own desire to shut myself off from others when I'm hurting or in pain - reaching out to someone else when I'm in those situations just never occurs to me - so I just don't notice it when others are in need. I gotta work on that more.
Etch-a-sketch. One of the coolest little apps I've hacked onto my iPhone is a little program called Sketches that is an Etch-a-Sketch emulator for the iPhone. You drag your finger around the screen to draw, and when you're done, you shake the iPhone to erase what you've doodled. How cool is that?
Effervescent. Ah, I love that word.
Eckankar. Back in the day, I used to work at this pro photo lab called Universal Colour (yes, they spelled it with a U). One of the lab's regular customers was a "church" called Eckankar, and while the representatives who stopped in to drop off rolls of photos seemed friendly, I always got a weird vibe from them. Their pictures were always of what looked like potluck dinners or other similar social gatherings, so I never really thought much of the Eckankar people other than my amusement that their "church" was called The Temple of Eck. Wasn't until years later that I heard the name Eckankar again in a discussion about cults.
Can you tell I'm reaching on the "E"?
Empathy. All my life, I've had trouble empathizing with people, even those that I love. I've often found myself forgetting birthdays, unknowingly saying things that hurt people's feelings, or not doing or saying something when I should to make someone feel better or give comfort. I've got a serious streak of oblivious when it comes to other people's feelings, especially in sad or painful situations. I didn't realize I had this shortcoming until a few years ago, but now I try to make up for it whenever I can. I suspect that part of my problem is my own desire to shut myself off from others when I'm hurting or in pain - reaching out to someone else when I'm in those situations just never occurs to me - so I just don't notice it when others are in need. I gotta work on that more.
Etch-a-sketch. One of the coolest little apps I've hacked onto my iPhone is a little program called Sketches that is an Etch-a-Sketch emulator for the iPhone. You drag your finger around the screen to draw, and when you're done, you shake the iPhone to erase what you've doodled. How cool is that?
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