Interruptibility frees me to be cehccessible and to relate to specific people in the path of my day, not hoarding my attention and energy for building only those linkages I may have defined as professionally strategic. How willing am I to view this interrupting situation as potentially more important work than what I had scheduled and planned for this hour, this day, or this season of life? On a broader scale, how willing am I to set aside my predetermined professional aspirations to be with people who have experienced tremendous interruption to every aspect of their lives? –Â Laura S. Meitzner Yoder
Reflection
Life itself is an interruption. An unexpected, beautiful but messy interruption. I’ll vouch that you were not expecting it. Sprouting from cells into tiny toes, tinier brain cells and fighting from the womb of a woman in a river of blood and screams, was not something you, or I, had marked on our calendars. [Read more…] about Interruption Is Calling (Scholar’s Compass)