#lone nut

[shiftythrifting]

We need to make some room for new stuff, so these two are in their final printing! Grab em before they’re gone!

The Lone Nut | Paint Me Like One Of Your Golden Girls

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[infertilityistheworst]

Thank you to all my sisters (and brothers) in the ttc community, and all of those others offering up their love

Call me an internal optimist, or naive, whatever you see fit. I’m a person who tries to put out so many good vibes, and can’t imagine anyone doing anything else. I’m intrinsically trusting, and have been know to leave my door unlocked during the day and my cell phone unattended because I want (and believe) only the best from others.

Infertility can be incredibly isolating, and often times you are (mostly unintentionally), can be put in incredibly hurtful and compromising positions.

That’s why when I found the ttc community (and my closest circle of supporters) I was blown away by the love friends, and in some cases strangers, can give you.

I know some of my sisters (myself included) has been dealt a harsh dose or cruelty recently, but know this:

YOU ARE STRONGER BECAUSE OF YOUR BATTLE

YOU HAVE GROWN ARMOUR MANY NEVER WILL

YOU ARE STILL, IN EVERY ASPECT A WOMAN

Do not let the opinion of one lone nut every sway your own self worth.

And to @poirotfanatic , please know I’m not hurt, I ain’t even mad. I am showing you sympathy because I know that hate comes from hurt (whether you are at this moment aware of it’s origin or not). Please know this is not an invitation for a dialogue but instead a chance for me to wish you a speedy recovery from whatever dark hole you live in. 😘

[speciesofleastconcern]

So a man with a history of violence and mental illness including trying to choke his own elderly mother and calling in threats to schools, got himself an armored van, rigged it with booby traps, and loaded it full of pipe bombs, and launched an attack on Dallas Police Headquarters. It seems he lost custody of his son (I wonder why?) and was expressing his rage at the police. Amazingly it ended with no innocent people being injured, and a police sniper neutralizing the attacker through the windshield of the van. His father was apparently aware the man’s rage, and where he intended to direct it, “He blamed them for taking his son. I tried to tell him the police didn't do it, the police were doing their job to enforce the laws. If you want to get to that you got to get to the liberal people who put these laws in place.” he said in a statement I furiously dictated from the NPR website to prove to myself that I actually heard it. So he wasn’t so much in disagreement with his son’s calculated violent terror plot as he was disappointed that he aimed it at police instead of---who exactly? The “liberal” lawmakers in Texas that wrote laws allowing the State to remove custody of children from violent maniacs? Read all about it: http://heavy.com/news/2015/06/james-boulware-dallas-police-headquarters-shooting-shootout-suspect-video-photos-white-male-armored-vehicle-other-suspects-explosives-son-terrorist/ Hear the NPR story here--although it will probably disappear pretty soon as this crap disapears into the next news cycle: http://www.npr.org/sections/news/ I don’t want to say all conservative white guys are violent nuts, but an awful lot of violent nuts seem to be conservative white guys.

[scrowgasm]

Some lone nut went to a midnight showing in Aurora, Colorado and opened fire. 14 dead, over 50 injured. I have no words. I'm angry and sad.

[lukethomas-blog]

Roundtable Roundup – Jeremy Boswell

Third in a series of posts from Summit Roundtable - Spring 2011 comes in from Jeremy Boswell:

I have been in a lot of leadership courses but none that have inspired me and contributed as much to my current place in leadership as these past Tuesday's.

I believe it was the 3rd Tuesday where we watched a video on Leadership.  It was the one with crazy shirtless guy.  I watched that video again the other day and it just reminded of the some of the revelations I received that Tuesday night!  For instance, “leadership is over glorified”.

I love that statement because it is so true, but nobody views it that way.  Leadership is risky.  you could always be that “lone nut” out on the lawn and no one ever gets up to join the movement, or everyone could be a part of it. Then they talk about nurturing your first few followers, not just assuming they are going to know the steps necessary to follow, or know where the movement is going.  They say in the video to “have the guts to be the 1st person to follow a lone nut”.

It made me realize that every movement needs a leaders, but it also needs brave men and women to be followers!  It’s not just about a leader, in any movement it is always propelled, and promoted the most from those following the leader.  Their words and actions about the movement cause others to want to follow what they are doing and where they are going.  That’s why it is so pivotal that every leader “make everything about the movement and not you”.  There is always a chance that your first follower will sit back down, but thats why leadership takes guts as well.  If it was easy to be a leader everyone would be doing it, but most people just stand back, watch and admire.  Few ever truly get the guts to be the first and to go for it.

Personally I think that every leader had to be a great follower of a leader.  I find that true even in a secular work place.  Most of the guys that make great leaders have been the ones that have been great followers.  This statement is almost illogical to the rational mind.

So I would say I learned from this lesson the most to be brave, nurture your followers, follow well, and focus on the movement!