Elevated Voices: Leave Them Empty Handed
Oh, Elevators, we love this Tweet. We’re in the thick of things, both locally and nationally, and it’s critical to keep self-care in focus. My 5-year old daughter has a new favorite book - “How Full Is Your Bucket?” Here’s the summary:
Each of us has an invisible bucket. When our bucket is full, we feel great. When it’s empty, we feel awful. Yet most children (and many adults) don’t realize the importance of having a full bucket throughout the day.
In How Full Is Your Bucket? For Kids, Felix begins to see how every interaction in a day either fills or empties his bucket. Felix then realizes that everything he says or does to other people fills or empties their buckets as well.
For those inclined to engage in public discourse, fight for what you believe in, and suffer the insults that come with the same, you may sometimes wonder why your bucket is empty. Doing what’s right should feel right, as President Abraham Lincoln would suggest. The reason it doesn’t is because there is no way to engage without spending personal resources - time, energy, emotion - in a non-regenerative way. This may be contrasted against time, energy, and emotion that is spent into time with family, direct service to others, or even a few hours with a favorite hobby.
You have to fill your own bucket first. And maybe don’t spend so much of your own on those who don’t deserve it. “It’s okay to let provocateurs leave empty handed.” - TC
LINKS
Check out our chat with Baltimore Positive & A Miner Detail - ElectionPalooza, Part 1
Covid-19 Is Dividing the American Worker (WSJ - Christopher Mims) - “The rapid adoption of remote work and automation could accelerate inequalities in place for decades. Economists say the resulting ‘K’ shaped recovery will be good for professionals—and bad for everyone else.”
Former Hogan chief of staff calls MES severance, bonuses ‘customary’; legislators seek answers on ‘problematic’ payouts (The Baltimore Sun - Pamela Wood)
Here’s what Baltimore-area school district schedules will look like this fall as coronavirus pandemic continues (The Baltimore Sun - Liz Bowie)
District 4: Say No to Sezin Palmer (Part 2) (HoCo Progress Report)
About that Post (Village Green/Town Squared)
This Week’s Birthday’s:
August 25th - Mary Ann Scully
August 26th - Delegate Shelly Hettleman
August 27th - Karla Raettig, RJ Caulder
August 28th - Laura Newberger, Nancy Carlsen, Elisa Kamens, Jason Shapiro, Jessie Newburn
August 29th - Josh Tzuker, Susan Dobbs O’Brien, Lamont Stanley Bryant, Kevin Bell
August 30th - Jen Mallo