Yesterday was okay

I had a pretty good day. You can go ahead and mark that down in your calendar. It's not often I say it. 

I've been trying to use the Examen method of reviewing my days in the presence of God lately. I think it helps.

First off, yesterday I finished reading the boy's dissertation. Dang. I mean.... Dang! There's so much to say, but I don't know where to begin. Critical Limits: Addiction's Critique of Capitalist Society is a scathing indictment of society as we know it in nothing short of true prophetic form. I don't want to give too much away, because hopefully someone will read the book when it comes out, but he lays out a pretty clear path how all the ways we've tried to explain addiction are mostly just ways for people to profit off of it. As he puts it,

"In the final analysis, addiction is not a choice, a disease, a mental illness, or a theological riddle; it is the necessary result of an unreasonable social world that demands our individual adjustment and fealty." (I had to google 'fealty'... it's not a typo)

Anyway, I told him I thought it was superbly written, thorough, and beyond what I expected. The first sentence ("Addiction is in the air") is a real clue in that it doesn't mean what you might think it means. I also added that what surprised me most was how interesting I found it and that even I was able to understand most of it (it's a bit scholarly).

So, I was a pretty proud papa. I was already proud of him just for receiving the PhD, but I think this dissertation is really good.

Also yesterday... I lasted 50 minutes on the Assault air bike! Whew. That was a workout! It's the most I've sweat in some time, and it felt good.

Yet that wasn't all. My boss posted a pic and a little ditty about me on the social medias in the afternoon. Basically just how long I've worked here and how much he appreciates what I do. It wasn't anything special but it meant the world to me. Which then made me wonder all the more why it was so hard for previous bosses I've had to do the same. Something so simple made such a huge difference in my attitude. It probably took all of 5 minutes to do. Why did it take 5 1/2 years? And why can't other supervisors do the same? I don't know...

Anyway, there ya have it. A good day in my life. If karma is real I expect that wench to come after me big time today. Maybe, though, just maybe... she's not.

Could it be that things are simply looking up? Perhaps it's a turning point in my life! Hey, who knows. Stranger things have happened...