Balance Within a Balance - Fik vs. Calder
People keep talking about balancing work and home life as if were actually even a possibility. I'm finding in my world, that balance looks more like an Alexander Calder mobile that didn't quite past muster. It hangs askew from the ceiling with a limp and peculiar air about it and I'm not sure if its pathetic for its planning or its execution, in either case - the vision before me is anything but glorious. There's not simply the question of two opposing forces balancing; in fact, the deadly component no one mentions are the dozens of little balancing acts within each topic. Balancing the politics at work with the actual need to get something accomplished. Balancing what gets accomplished and who looks to gain what, from it..well, you get the drift; balancing within a balance. Watching Bethany get off the school bus the other day, I was suddenly overcome with a glimpse of all the poorly balanced items in my life. For the eternity of one minute, I was fully aware