We are about to pack up boxes here in New Zealand and head for the States. Moving to NZ was a phenomenal transition in many ways; it has changed me both professionally and personally. The transition back to the States is seeming to hold the same kind of change, but who am I to say I KNOW what it will actually do.

 

Right now, I am reassessing the ways that you can get buy-in from a group of dedicated people in a situation where the assumption of authority or the imposition of authority is not appropriate.Tossing one's idea of best practices out for review requires the assumption that those who are supposed to review WILL review. But, as I am finding out, there is the ever present conundrum that people are creatures of habit, convenience, and lazier preference.

 

That reassessment is a mirror of a conversation that are occcurring within my family. On all sides I am being met with issues of balance and reevaluation. I am used to this, and it causes me no difficulty to constantly be caught in reassessment (as it is part of the bendiness that comes from doing the be-here-now-babramdasst thing). That is because I have learned to still PRODUCE (insert needed output here) while in the middle of reassessing. I am beginning to see that this is not a ubiquitous skill, and it is one that really does have a great need. Why, not because I am tooting my horn, but because WE are in TRANSITION.

 

My professional skills speak to transition - how to go from small to medium, how to go from idea to function, how to go from nothing to something, how to get from here to there. I am not necessarily so good at HERE or NOW but I am better than good at HERE to NOW.  My personal skills speak to persistence. Sometimes utterly stupid and hard headed persistence, but persistence nonetheless. It is anybodies guess, however, how the persistence and the transitional fit together. In my own opinion they do not, and hence my tendency to not engage in frontline procedure and policy development and why I lack in understanding some basic culturally defined social skills.

 

Anyway, I am scrapping the statistics project until later. Again. It pisses me off that I cannot dig into that needed area right now, but it is for a reason. The reason is that I am actually closer to and am motivated more to attend to Blurry Monkey and another "hold" project that is tentatively entitled: An Annotated Dead Man.