Tears for Fears from The Hurting
Via Peter Gabriel
I peer through the window
knock at the door
and the monster I was
so afraid of
lies curled up on the floor
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I love the follow up emails that companies send after phone calls. Care to take a guess how my recent AT&T Internet Services Experience went? I think this screengrab of my email tells volumes. I wish I could have just sent them this.
Things have to get pretty bad for me to let Comcast back in my house. Multiple folks trying to up-sell me on unrelated services while I am trying to resolve a support issue takes the cake. No I really don’t want to tell you why I like my satellite service, I’d really just like to know why I can’t get a decent download speed on my DSL. Ultimately I got in touch with someone in upper tier support who could partially help but the damage long done by that point. “5:11AM (The Moment Of Clarity)” – The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
One of my very favorite people is someone I have never actually met, I know her only as Maggie. Maggie does something wonderful though, she organizes a brilliant web site called Violence Unsilenced, a place for “shedding light on the epidemic of domestic violence and sexual assault by giving its survivors a voice.” Of course my very favorite person is my Gina – who shared her own experiences and Spoke Out on VU in October of 2009. I can never really express how proud I am of her for doing that, or how much I admire her strength and courage. She is a superhero in every sense of the word. Violence Unsilenced is filled with strong people – men and women – who take the little chunk of the Internet that Maggie provides and fill it with their stories. Heartbreaking stories. Painful stories. But they are their stories, in their own voice, a voice no longer silenced. As VU celebrates its second year, Maggie assembled a video compilation to recognize the folks who spoke out. Like the one from last year, it made me cry – sad tears to acknowledge the atrocities that folks face in their lives – but also jubilant tears for seeing the strength in those that participated – a strength that comes from sharing their stories. I haven’t yet had the courage to share my story, in fact have only recently acknowledged to myself that there is a story. I can feel my voice stirring inside me though. I’ve always thanked Maggie for helping give Gina her voice – I think I can now come out and thank her for helping me find my own as well. Please support Violence Unsilenced by sharing it with your friends, supporting those who share with your comments, or by speaking out with your own story. sb A big thanks to Nicholas Bate for the linkage today – I hope that while you new folks were here you found something else enjoyable. This reminds me that I really am remiss in not recognizing more often a small group of bloggers who I really enjoy and who also seem to have latched on to something they like here to the point of occasionally linking to me. These guys really are on my shortlist of blogs that I do make a point of reading each and every day. Individually each of them is interesting – collectively they really are all that you need to know about everything. To even be on the radar of these fine folks is just an honor really. So go forth and read, enjoy and subscribe to these: Nicholas Bate – Business of LIfe + Life of Business Execupundit – Commentary by Michael Wade on Leadership, Ethics, Management, and Life Eclecticity – No tag line but only because it can’t be described in a single sentence. Cultural Offering – Kurt offers does a great mix of business, politics, music and more. Thanks guys – you keep writing and I’ll keep reading. sb Stripped of the musical accompaniment this song gets even more haunting and beautiful, and sad. “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times” – The Beach Boys
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