(Originally posted 2012-07-26 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reblogged 2018-06-14.)
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* Are you a good listener?
(Reblogged from Brain Sweets.)
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Posted by Tracy Seekins ⋅ February 3, 2014 ⋅ Leave a Comment
Filed Under communication, conversation, interrupting, listening, talking
Are you listening? Really listening? When you are in a conversation with a friend or anyone, are you hearing what the other says? Or are you thinking about what you will say next? Are you waiting for your opportunity to tell some story? Do you get so excited or impatient that you interrupt? When the other person stops speaking do you begin immediately or do you wait 3 seconds?
Listening is an integral part of communication. Sometimes real listening means you don’t get to tell the story you had in your mind or say the comment you had 3 sentences ago. Real listening means when the other speaker is done and it is your turn that you are continuing the thought, commenting on what they actually said. Waiting 3 seconds after the other person is done speaking is a way to allow your thoughts to form and shows you were listening.
So are you a good listener?
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Another good post from Tracy:
Opportunity or Argument
(Reblogged 2018-02-15.)
* A tattoo is a permanent blemish.
Period.
(Originally posted 05/21/12 at Trojan Horse Productions.
Reposted 2018-02-08.)
* Job search update, 02/03/14; and other news
Bookmarks:
Job search update
Crisis for D.C. homeless families
Job search update
(Composed 2014-02-01)
Things are moving full steam ahead on my application for a Secretary II position with the City, as I’ve probably described in previous posts. The hours are 8:30-4:30, which under normal circumstances will let me get to the shelter in time to (1) actually get in and (2) take a shower each day. I will need to phone the office Monday morning 02/03/14 to confirm that all’s in line, and possibly find out a start date.
Continue reading * Job search update, 02/03/14; and other news
* Issues with upcoming posts
In the process of “recycling” old posts on Wednesdays, I am now coming upon a number of posts with which I’m not completely comfortable. I probably would not write them, now or in the future, the way I did at the time; but I’m also still not sure exactly how I’d write them differently.
At the time I wrote those posts, I supposed my homelessness would be brief, and William Tell would soon enough become a public figure able to speak to what he saw as the pressing social issues. My homelessness continues eighteen months later, and my perceptions of those issues have changed.
Continue reading * Issues with upcoming posts
* The End of Anger, by Ellis Cose (2001) …
… is a slim volume for $24.99. The description on inside front dust jacket concludes it “may well be the most important book dealing with race to be published in recent decades.” That strikes me as presumptuous. The front matter includes a list of the author’s other titles, from which it appears he seldom writes about anything else.
Yet the portions I browsed remind me of something I want to do on my own show. The preface examines in some detail changes in public opinion polls between 2008 and 2010. I don’t attach the weight to these facts that Cose does. But if, for example, the President’s approval rating rises with one group and falls with another group in the same time frame, I would like to find out from listeners whose opinions changed and why; to examine with listeners how their thinking works, and on what bases their opinions change.
(Originally posted 05/12/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reposted 10/26/17.)
* Taking off for the weekend
The mission principally serves two groups.
First (in too many ways) are the “clients,” 450 men enrolled in the 12-month residential drug-and-alcohol treatment program; for which reason they are commonly called “programmers.” Each of them has a permanently assigned bunk and some form of closet space, and can use the mission as a mailing address.
I need to keep in mind that, but for the program, most of them would be homeless.
Second (in too many ways) are the “guests,” no more than 60 homeless men on any day, who are provided accommodations overnight; for which reason we are commonly called “overnighters.” We must vacate the premises no later than 6:00 a.m. daily, cannot leave anything behind, and cannot return until 3:00 p.m. We cannot use the mission as a mailing address.
Note the distinction between “clients” and “guests.”
At the end of the work day one day last week, I walked toward the parking lot carrying my two heavy bags. Programmer W____ P__ came toward me, walking in the opposite direction, and said, “Bill, you look like you’re taking off for the weekend!”
I said to myself, even programmers don’t get it.
He can take off for the weekend; I can’t. I have nowhere to go and nowhere to come back to.
The way he saw me is the way I look all the time.
(Originally posted 05/10/12 at Trojan Horse Productions. Reposted 10/05/17.)
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o Job search update, 01/06/14
(Composed 2014-01-01.)
Here are the positions I applied to in December:
MC Administrative Asst, Cardiac Care Nursing Admn Job – UMMS
MC Administrative Asst, Staffing Office Job – UMMS
Production Assistant (Part Time) – Sinclair Broadcast Group
Logistics Administrative Assistant – Cowan Systems, LLC – Baltimore, MD
Administrative Assistant – ABC Behavioral Health
Secretary – Union Memorial Hospital
MC Administrative Asst, Staffing Office Job (#29951) – UMMS
Administrative Assistant III – 1st Choice Staffing
MC Administrative Asst, Cardiac Care Nursing Admn Job (#29837) – UMMS (again)
I’m embarrassed that there weren’t more.
Continue reading o Job search update, 01/06/14
* Yes, I do have a hidden agenda …
… as to my choices of music for the show.
(Visit the Playlist!)
First, I want to establish an atmosphere conducive to folks’ listening to and learning from each other. As I remark at the conclusion of Free Speech Handbook, “Awe in the face of the unknown may be the healthiest of all human postures.”
Second, I want to make available to my listeners music and concepts that are under-represented in the market-driven playlists of commercial music stations.
I can’t apologize too much for leaving out music that I just don’t like. In many styles of blues, for example, performers impersonate someone who is drunk or high. I don’t want to be around such people, see or hear them. So much for those styles of blues. Now, on the other hand, I like practically everything the Rolling Stones have done, and most of that is, in fact, blues.
But just because I like a song won’t get it on the show.
Continue reading * Yes, I do have a hidden agenda …
* Nancy Lanza, a mother tragic and infuriating
PLEASE READ THE COMMENTS!
Nancy Lanza, a mother tragic and infuriating
When I saw the TV news segment on the official report a few nights ago, I tried to recall what had become of the mother.
Oh, yes. He killed her first.
I have to believe there were resources and expertise available that she did not avail herself of, in her decades of dealing with this difficult child.
I still do not understand those who oppose any limits at all on how many guns a person can own.
I strongly suspect karma plays a big role in what happened.
Ultimately, she shares culpability.
Recall that this is the story that made most of us aware of the term “crisis actors.”
Related: Conspiracy Theorists: America’s Lost Sheep?
(Reblogged 08/03/17.)
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