It goes without saying that that is a wonderful, inspiring post: "principles have been reaffirmed, trust has been maintained and experience has developed...  to find us sitting so peaceful in a pool of early morning sunshine such a short time later."

Lessons from a cat.  Our little fellow likes to step on my bare foot with one of its hind legs and dig his claws in -- a highly effective way of non-verbal shouting, I suppose.  And I know all about those mealtime scratches on ankles.

So being unemployed after I gave up the pathetic profession of hawking houses, I applied as a pizza and sandwich maker at the hole-in-the-wall down the road.  They couldn't offer enough hours.  Sos I drives down to the next traffic light and get hired part time in a classic small town office a couple of small ticks above minimum wage.  So when the town approves a new town office building -- and you know what they say about **it flows down hill -- I find myself as a totally inexperienced general contractor for a 6,000 sq. ft. commercial office building, the design, technology infrastructure, hiring and scheduling all the trades, furniture, relocation, etc. -- still a tick or so above minimum wage. 

We're moving in in a little over a month and I'm loving every minute of the challenge, kinda like happily paying my dues to the humanity I abandoned as a premie.

Marginally as interesting as bridge.