Ok class, please turn in your homework....

Well, it's time to report in on how well you accomplished Task #1 this week - Consoling Someone.  As for me, I would say I failed.  Mark a big old F on this week's assignment for me. This card will have to go back in the pile and be picked out another week on my calendar.  Not that I didn't try - and in fact, I suppose there's an outside chance that someone somewhere was helped by something I did.  But more often this week, I found myself being the consolee - numerous times throughout the week....even ending up sobbing on the shoulder of a co-volunteer at Tides.  And a thought struck me this week that in our efforts to console someone else, we may not always be able to measure the outcome of this assignment.  We may have impacted a life without knowing it.  Or as in my case this week, sometimes our efforts are misconstrued as having deleterious intent - and for that there seems to be no self-consolation.  So I would love to hear how you fared - comment here if blogspot will stop being temperamental and allow that, or drop me a line on Facebook or in an email......and stay tuned for the coming week's assignment - to be posted tomorrow.