Charlie, Do tell me to "pull my head in" if I don't know what I am talking about, but I have come to be concerned with these issues.
Our world is still quite ignorant of the mind. We have friends and family with various conditions and in Australia the last few years have being served well with a mental health week that out Public Broadcaster has embraced. For anything we don't experience our-self, or have someone close to use experiencing, we tend towards ignorance that drives confusion and distance from things we don't understand. The world is slowly learning and I expect their will be a day in which there is far more understanding. This understanding depends on those living their different experiences, to come out, lest we never learn from them. The mind is so intimately linked with agency, intent and motivation, people find it hard to understand how to separate conditions (even personalities) from what motivates us behind their eyes. Directing compassion towards those who do not understand, although sometimes difficult, is healthy for our self, but also for them. *In response to your original post, * if anybody has any ideas/questions/comments/anything you want to lob my way > related to any of this I think as a community we need to "curate" the various and wonder full tools to some extent that people can find what they are looking for. I for one have dozens of macros and tools to publish that before I wrote them I wish someone else had, so I feel duty bound to share. But there is also the wealth of solutions from others, and being able to choose what and when to use them does need to be more public. So if you feel confident consider raising a topic to address an area you are confident in. Thanks for your contributions Tones On Sunday, 23 August 2020 03:56:44 UTC+10, Charlie Veniot wrote: > > Oh man, just when I think everything will be fine, and about to embark in > a healing/healthy (and wildly interesting project) as part of ripping that > band-aid quickly, I read your message and realize the pinball that is my > stage of grief is still bouncing all over the place. > > Thanks! Without realizing it (I'm fiercely independent and not one to ask > for help, other than from doctors and very close family), I guess I really > needed a friendly message (that's a serious dose of good medicine.) > > Of course, my old sponge goes all over the place like a herd of cats and > puppies: why is it I can get a compassionate pat on the back from somebody > I don't know at all (well, other than via a few exchanges in a fine > discussion group), yet am not getting that at all in a work environment and > fine enough folk I want to have dialogue with, but don't want to have any > dialogue with me at all. > > I chalk it up to my naive view of people in a work setting. Not upset > about it. Just don't quite understand it, so it takes up brain cycles: > something that keeps tugging at my attention. Hence a deep dive into this > fun project, a good TiddlyWiki use case built as I keep digging deeper into > the intertwingled rabbit hole. > > *Thanks much, Tones.* > > And all of this aside, please keep blowing my mind with all of them really > meaty posts/comments on wildly interesting topics. Everyone of them are > like running into a polar plunge (totally immersed and fully engaged in > it), and it is exciting every time. > > On Saturday, August 22, 2020 at 3:52:13 AM UTC-3 TW Tones wrote: > >> Charlie, >> >> Thanks for sharing, and best of luck with these challenges, although >> often different, we all face challenges, with a big one time to time, but >> most only make us stronger. >> >> I think writing is a good idea, but even more so if you work to build a >> larger resource, if not only for yourself. I am looking at writing my first >> book, only considering it at the moment, but I too plan to make use of >> tiddlywiki as a platform on which to build a knowledge network. >> >> I too have faced retrenchment due to business changing, twice actually, >> sad to hear for you it coincided with these other issues in your life. >> There is no reason to thank your former employer, but it is an opportunity >> for the new, and perhaps even better, it forces you out of your comfort >> zone and opens so many new possibilities. This will all be your own effort >> and you can take full responsibility for your successes, when they come. >> >> Please do remain connected and sharing with the community, for support >> and input. >> >> Regards >> Tones. >> >> >> On Saturday, 22 August 2020 05:17:15 UTC+10, Charlie Veniot wrote: >>> >>> Blog entry: An Intertwingularity Mapping Project with TiddlyWiki: ADHD >>> Slice'n Dice >>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.intertwingularityslicendice.ca%2F2020%2F08%2Fnext-post-in-works-malleability-of.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNExKrTH0KpJ2g5hKWitb4arF7jX5Q> >>> >>> I went on sick leave back in late January. Since being diagnosed with >>> ADHD (attention deficiency) last May, I've been really eager to have a >>> dialog at work about very small and simple changes that could help make me >>> successful in my job ( a job I've been successfully since 1995, but was >>> finding impossibly challenging over the last two years because of >>> overwhelming increase in communications/meetings.) >>> >>> That turned into my job position being eliminated, me being demoted and >>> put into a newly created job position. Although I think it will all >>> workout as being a good thing, it is still a pretty traumatizing surprise >>> when I went into a return to work meeting thinking we'd be having a dialog >>> about making my previous job work, and starting the meeting off with a >>> "your position has been eliminated." >>> >>> All that said: don't cry for me Argentina! I take lemons and make >>> lemonade. Work will be awesome once I get through all the stages of grief. >>> >>> To me, the greatest way to process things is to write. So what a great >>> time to tie a whole bunch of things in this old sponge of mine together. >>> >>> As I truck along, if anybody has any ideas/questions/comments/anything >>> you want to lob my way related to any of this (TiddlyWiki setup/tweaks to >>> organize content; ADHD resources/questions; "Intertwingularity Mapping"; >>> anything at all!) , please gimme gimme gimme anytime ! >>> >>> Cheers, best regards, and Happy Friday/Saturday ! >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/dae72a8e-0dad-41d8-8b48-7bd8432b13a7o%40googlegroups.com.
