by Diane Tate

The sheep & the goats?

Or, Life as a Business Class Passenger. Never before have I more starkly experienced “class” more than in my first real foray into business class…it was there, on Singapore Air, that I had choices….

  • Choices to enter a different (and of course, far shorter) line.
  • Choices to rest my travel-weary body in an exclusive “AirKRIS” lounge (“Kris” has some meaning I am forgetting right now as I type this from the Mumbai airport).
  • Choices to partake in whatever food I wanted in these lounges.
  • Choices to sit upstairs….where the cleaner bathrooms are.
  • Choices to refresh oneself with hot towels brought to you every 30 minutes or so by the ever-so-attentive SAL staff.
  • Choices to have legroom….serious legroom….and to recline my seat in a form that far more closely resembles the humane than “Economy” class affords its ill-fated travelers. This is not trivial.

What a fitting preface to my destination country….

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by Diane Tate

When work feels like…er….

A marathon? Just finished Schwab’s “Technical Mentoring Program” – and I put that in quotes because it truly is a “LIFE WORK” program…between that, an intense/challenging job, a new place, foot surgery and a few international trips, I’d say the ’06-’07 fiscal year has had it’s challenges! I feel like a wet noodle and hope I can absorb the key lessons I’m supposed to be gleaning (and transforming from-!).

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by Diane Tate

Unfathomable

Yes, the God who made and reigns over ALL of this…came down and became a vulnerable child…gave Himself to an ignominous birth and a grisly death…so that He could intercede on our behalf forever. Do you grasp that? I don’t. But hope to more and more. Merry merry merry Christ-mas.

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