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\"\"<\/a>I listened to my friend as she railed.\u00a0 Complained. Yes – whined.\u00a0 And expressed anger at the utter unfairness of it all.\u00a0 What was she talking about?\u00a0 The Weather.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s backwards!\u00a0 It’s all wrong!\u00a0 It’s not fair!<\/p>\n

Across the world people are encountering weather patterns way off the grid of what is regionally normal.\u00a0 Here in the pacific northwest we are used to our hot august days.\u00a0 As I write this I see dried, fallen leaves scattering the ground.\u00a0 The trees are responding the their natural patterns and everything in their experience is telling them it’s October, not August.\u00a0 So they are already dropping their leaves.\u00a0 The farmer’s at the market are financially impacted and puzzled.\u00a0 Their growing season plans are now thwarted the second year in a row.\u00a0 They apologize for the “unseasonable” produce that is available and yes, they complain.<\/p>\n

Me?\u00a0 I’ll admit a fondness for complaining as well.\u00a0 Yes, Indeed.\u00a0 Just this morning I was complaining that a favorite friend of mine who is a principal of a grade school has to take money from her personal household savings account to pay for personal development materials for her teachers. No money for skill enhancement for her teachers. And if she wants to encourage, support, uplift or inspire her staff in any way – the resources come from her own pocket.\u00a0 Nothing in the budget for such things.\u00a0 The weather?\u00a0 I rarely complain about the weather.\u00a0 Honest.\u00a0 Hardly ever.\u00a0\u00a0 Principals who don’t have the resources to support their staff facing increasing cuts to an already slim budget.\u00a0 THAT I complain about.\u00a0 And I try to follow this guidline:\u00a0 If I invest my energy in a complaint and I ask someone in my field of view to LISTEN to what I’m complaining about – I have to partner the complaint with a positive action.\u00a0 So I am going to tell you this:\u00a0 In addition to the support material which this principal has paid me as a working artist to make for her – I am giving her enough cards to send to each of her teachers once a month for the school year, a gift for each teacher at their birthday and some odd little reinforcement gifts.\u00a0 This is material I have that I will give to her absent a line item in her budget to allow for the graces that make the arduous work of teaching a little sweeter.<\/p>\n

Have you complained recently about the educational budget crisis?\u00a0 Have you thanked a teacher lately?<\/p>\n

Have you complained about the weather?\u00a0 Ah, my reader-friend, if you are one whose home has been washed away or blown away – that is indeed worthy of the energy of a complaint.\u00a0 If you are too hot or too cold – consider the grace that you have to address the condition with right clothing and electronic support (A\/c or heaters)!\u00a0 And focus your view on things that you can actually DO something about.<\/p>\n

The weather may be backwards where you are but your point of view can be put on straight ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I listened to my friend as she railed.\u00a0 Complained. Yes – whined.\u00a0 And expressed anger at the utter unfairness of it all.\u00a0 What was she talking about?\u00a0 The Weather.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s backwards!\u00a0 It’s all wrong!\u00a0 It’s not fair! 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