Sylvia's Journal

Not much happened yesterday. I left early and came home relatively early while Axel slept late and went into Boston for his evening class. We did not see each other. I did not row, did not get my act together in between meetings which was a shame, such great weather. Lots of ‘nots’ yesterday.

Tessa left me a nice salad for dinner, taking good care of her parents. We are traveling into Boston together tomorrow. She will spend a day with her new colleagues picking up trash on one of the Boston Harbor islands. Sounds like fun. Tessa can’t show me what she is doing for the company as it is one of my organization’s most fearsome competitors on US government bids (occasionally we are bidding together, but mostly not). She’s with the for profit world where they pay interns. We don’t do that.

A long pre-dawn conversation on Skype with our team in Pakistan this morning about how to connect disparate pieces of technical input and bring various parts of the health system at the lower regions of the health pyramid together to focus on the needs of the population. I think our leadership program can do something about it. I could sense the energy that emerged in this conversation across 10 time zones, with a group of people who work in a very difficult place. This was a conversation about two ‘nots’ cancelling each other out; a not-not conversation if you will. Two ‘nots’ making one big yes!