I'm delighted by our collective imperfections and touched by how candidly you all shared. Especially since I can relate to at least one thing on everyone's list. And despite the fact that my list of imperfections and inabilities kept growing as I collected more from each comment, I feel better not worse.
Its a frigid Sunday morning in Anchorage. Two degrees. And my imperfect self is sitting at the table drinking coffee surrounded by a disorganized mess. I didn't get up and bike as I originally planned and I'm slow to jump into the home improvement projects we scheduled for today-- though Nick has already brought the frozen paint supplies in from the shed, taken the door off the bathroom, and disconnected the fan and light.
I'm almost ready, sweetie, one more minute...
College basketball is on and the team I chose to win the championship already lost. I know nothing about basketball but Nick thought it would be fun if we each filled out the brackets anyways. I chose teams based on the association I had with the particular city or state. Like Tennessee, who is playing right now, I chose because my aunt, uncle, and cousins lived there and I thought the rolling hills were pretty. I chose Boston College to win b/c of my New England roots and because a childhood friend works for their sports department.
I chose affinity over talent, records, or ranking.
Which goes to show that it doesn't matter how talented, successful and perfect anyone is, it will still boil down to this: Are they personable? Are they honest? Do we connect?
I agree. I base decisions on that same criteria....and I truly think those are the most important things.
Posted by: Kyla | March 20, 2007 at 05:42 AM