I still have a hard time adjusting to Sunday being the first day of the week. It is as if my entire being is programmed to experience Sunday as a day of rest and so, the first day of work must therefore be Monday. All of us people from ‘The Other Book’ keep making this mistake, even some who have lived here for awhile.
This Sunday-Rest Day meme has its counterpart on the other side of the week, Thursday. The end of the week on Thursday rather than Friday is easier to handle even though that one too always comes as a surprise. I love these Thursday afternoon because they are usually quiet as the government has closed down for the weekend by about noontime and I get to do my own winding down.
Our office women’s group that I launched a week ago has created a flurry of meetings between women from various departments and even projects in ways I did not see before. I don’t know whether this is a result of my suggestion that they should decide amongst themselves what kind of gift they’d like to receive in recognition for being working women or did I light a fire? I hope it is the latter.
I am seeing some other small changes in the people I work with or those who work for them. It has something to do with being less obsessed with checking off work plan activities and more with acting as coaches and leading from behind. It is less of wanting our counterparts or clients in the ministry to dance to our choreography and more of planting seeds or lighting small fires under people who were otherwise rather passive.
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