Perhaps there is some exaggeration in these phrases, but very little, and the exaggeration only goes to prove my point about Catherine.
Catherine, a joy to know.
Arta
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Eighty Memories for Eighty Years: #28 On Raising Children - Catherine
Perhaps there is some exaggeration in these phrases, but very little, and the exaggeration only goes to prove my point about Catherine.
Catherine, a joy to know.
Arta
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I recently have been passing on something i learned from Catherine, and that is that it is OK (and maybe even good) to take an afternoon nap when you are going to school. I don't do this myself... i just tell others to do it. Maybe it is this napping practice that enables her to return to the work with such strength?
ReplyDeleteRe napping. I say if one nap during the day is good, two is even better. Not only do I promote napping, I practise it.
ReplyDeleteI learned the formula for redirecting people back to their own health professional. When I ask her, "what might such-abd-such be a sign of?" she replies with, "what does your doctor say?"
ReplyDeleteFor yearsI have been afraid that Catherine has lost her sense of humour. I chalked it up to being in the health professions and always having to listen to people and try to figure out from what they told her, what was going on with them. So I would hear probing questions. Or many times with my own health, she had thought out the future of it, long before I had considered what I should do (ie get a shower installed that has no lip for me to step over). And I was like you, often phoning her with medical questions. So I only saw this professional side of her.
ReplyDeleteAt any rate, while Catherine was here for five days, I began to hear that old humour from the past that I knew she had and sometimes I was laughing right outloud. And not just once, but it seemed to be coming every other sentence. I finally said to her, does your family, and do your colleagues know how funny you are. She said, no they don't. Not even Eric. The only ones who know how funny I am or seem to tell me, are Bonnie and you.
So there you go, Bonnie. You and I really get that girl. For me, she was saying something funny about every other sentence. She can do slapstick, mime, jokes and even better, that delicious dark humour which I love. And she keeps her face neutral through all of this, but I couldn't keep mine that way.
She is fabulously funny.
Wow. No words.
ReplyDeleteWell many you could do a few more.
It never hurts to hear a compliment. :)
OK. Here is another compliment for you. Zoom has been getting the best of me. But today I got a quick Zoom tutorial f-- enough that I feel confident in going back and practising some of the techniques. I am not the only one for whom it is hard to keep up with technology that changes every week or so. Always an update. Always a new technique. Today I learned how to send a file, how to change the background and how to do chat. OK. This is it for today's compliment, Catherine.
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