Scenes from the Nonprofit Life
This has been a busy week at work, and so was last week, the week before, and most of the weeks between February 2015 and the present day. It’s hard to avoid busy, emotionally-draining weeks in the nonprofit world. To complicate matters, last week my foot slipped off some slightly-uneven sidewalk and I fell down flat. I landed on my right elbow and knee, in the middle of a busy pedestrian corridor. In the aftermath of this incident I a) met a very nice passerby who picked up the things I’d dropped, b) put a Sunkist can on my elbow because it was the only cold thing in the office I was headed for, c) cursed my balance issues, and d) wrapped up a phone call with my uncle by saying “I need to go find an instant icepack somewhere in this city.” Anyway, after a Good-Friday road trip to visit my mother’s side of the family, a Holy-Saturday massage, and a lovely Easter dinner, I finally am feeling mostly better. (“Better” here means “back to baseline, plus I enjoyed a really fancy Easter