Dear HoneyBlossom:

Congratulations for your staff meeting going so well! Good to read that your manager was understanding, kind, helpful and appreciative of your work, your competency and your character (for immediately owning your mistake)! I hope that all your work shifts will be shorter than 12 hours with fewer, if any sleepovers.

I hope your co-worker, the one with a pacemaker, will be getting better soon!

I know that understandably, you are interested in other members replying to you as well, and there is a lesser chance of that happening if your thread looks more and more like a conversation between two people. One way to solve this problem is for you to start a new thread where I will not post (I can keep communicating with you on this existing thread). Another way is that you post without addressing me, just as you did with your most recent post, and I will not reply, following such a post. Please let me know how you prefer to go about it.

In regard to Robert Blake’s poems about innocence, Auguries of Innocence is one: “To see a World in a Grain of Sand * And a Heaven in a Wild Flower * Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand * And Eternity in an hour * A Robin Red breast in a Cage * Puts all Heaven in a Rage *… A dog starved at his Masters Gate * Predicts the ruin of the State * … A Truth that’s told with bad intent * Beats all the Lies you can invent * … He who mocks the Infants Faith * Shall be mocked in Age & Death * …He who respects the Infants faith *  Triumphs over Hell & Death… “.

You wrote: “My understanding is that Blake wrote of us having been open innocent, but through experience, we lost our innocence, and learn to regain that innocence” – your understanding, as I understand it, makes sense to me. Those who mocked our childhood innocence, took it away from us, and we, in turn, took the innocence of others. The way back to innocence is to do-no-harm: to not cage or starve, or tell the truth with the intent to harm… or lie, or harm others in other ways.

anita

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