Blind Spots

What is up with people driving in my bind spot? Don’t they realize that I can’t see them when they are there? Lately it is like there is a conspiracy with people constantly driving right in my blind spot. Today I had a car on each side drive all the way down Hwy 17 in my blind spots.  Am I they only person that cautiously attempts to avoid remaining in another’s drivers blind spot any longer than is absolutely necessary?

Blind spots: Those inevitable places in your life that you can’t see, the things of which you are unaware. They are in plain view for everyone else, but you have no clue they are there. I wonder what is really in my blind spot? What is it that everyone else knows about me, but about which I am totally in the dark?

Do you have a friend with whom you can talk about what is in each other’s blind spot? I suspect if we can cultivate that kind of relationship, it will cut down on the number of finder benders that we have and might even prevent some major wrecks from happening.

 Think about it….

Crisis & Parenting

I’m not thinking about the crisis’s of parenting, although that would also be a topic worth pondering, I am thinking about crisis’s and I am thinking about parenting.

 

Lately I have been dealing with a lot of families who are experiencing crises of one form or another and I am discovering that crisis’s strip aware all the pretenses and get everything right down to the core. I have been amazed at the hidden strengths revealed within some families and by the complete absences of a sustaining strength in others.

 

That is where my thoughts have shifted to parenting. What produces this strength to endure devastating blows? How do I instill it in my kids? How do I develop it in my friends? Heck, how do I get it myself? Do you know when you have it? Is it a decision or is it a core belief? Does it have more to do with community or character?

 There is one thing of which I have become certain, the blow will come. At some point your legs get taken out from under you and then you have to see what you have left to stand on. I am also pretty sure that those who survive the blows the best are those who were prepared for them. They may not have known they were prepared and may not have intentionally prepared, but they had that strength.