In the wee hours this morning i was thinking about weather, and camping, and whether if it were raining the Tuolumne river site had any flooding risk. I recalled a study done in the Grand Canyon where the upstream dam scheduled the release of scouring floods and how that improved the riparian health of the Colorado river ecosystem.
My mind lept to metaphor: the periodic experience of distress is health increasing. I practiced new(ish) skills yesterday during the "crisis," and, while i am not looking forward to chatting about this with my director this morning, i do feel a certain type of confidence in my competence.
I also have a great deal of frustration about trying to put the "most important thing first" as the evening before i had committed to one pair of related tasks, and this event nuked that attempt. I have been pummeled with the coaching advice to get the most important thing done first thing in the day, and instead, here i was, getting the most urgent thing done. And i'm not sure how much value i was adding....
But no, wait, that is what i was learning yesterday: the value i was adding (i hope) was a certain amount of moderation as well as collecting the "why" something happened.
Yesterday i read![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sonia's newsletter article How to Irritate Your Nervous System and my mind screamed in protest. This morning, as i think about our managed ecosystems and how we are learning wildfire and floods and top predators are essential to the health of the whole, i can appreciate that there may be folks living in such a way that they can shield themselves from a natural rise and fall of stress and recovery in certain dimensions of their lives. I'm shielded from a dimension of stress/irritation by not having children in my daily life.
What i do have is work, and i've got to get ready for my meeting shortly.
My mind lept to metaphor: the periodic experience of distress is health increasing. I practiced new(ish) skills yesterday during the "crisis," and, while i am not looking forward to chatting about this with my director this morning, i do feel a certain type of confidence in my competence.
I also have a great deal of frustration about trying to put the "most important thing first" as the evening before i had committed to one pair of related tasks, and this event nuked that attempt. I have been pummeled with the coaching advice to get the most important thing done first thing in the day, and instead, here i was, getting the most urgent thing done. And i'm not sure how much value i was adding....
But no, wait, that is what i was learning yesterday: the value i was adding (i hope) was a certain amount of moderation as well as collecting the "why" something happened.
Yesterday i read
sonia's newsletter article How to Irritate Your Nervous System and my mind screamed in protest. This morning, as i think about our managed ecosystems and how we are learning wildfire and floods and top predators are essential to the health of the whole, i can appreciate that there may be folks living in such a way that they can shield themselves from a natural rise and fall of stress and recovery in certain dimensions of their lives. I'm shielded from a dimension of stress/irritation by not having children in my daily life.What i do have is work, and i've got to get ready for my meeting shortly.
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