Lessons-Learned

Uneven shelf — BUT functional The plan — if stopping at the B&M across town and picking up two wall mounted shelves and a spirit level with no inkling of what to do with either counts as one — was to spend the evening measuring, marking, drilling and putting up two shelves. The objective was to provide storage for books, a journal and my phone in a location accessible from my bed. I was certain it would be an absolute doodle, given my decent score in woodwork in my secondary school days, and my machine shop expertise during my undergrad. ...

A Year of Lessons Learned - some at great cost - in no particular order: Doubts not dealt with at inception are unlikely to go away of their own accord, they are more likely to fester and then lead to a cataclysmic event; It is almost never ever about you alone, people can (and probably will) get hurt by the fallout of your (in)decisions; The health, quality and colour of the grass across the fence are notoriously difficult to predict, one is perhaps best minded to live by the dictum ’ a bird in hand is worth two in the bush’ ; Mutuality - another notoriously difficult thing to predict - is everything; There is nothing to be gained from overthinking things; Time is perhaps the greatest contributor to clarity and healing; God does still come through, only He does have a peculiar sense of timing. For 2016? ...