Recovery Times
This morning I noticed three things. Yesterday I found out that a program I run at my job was not refunded for the coming year. Recovery money went to someone else – the city and state to be exact. I had to tell people this morning. It impacts four of us – some more than others.
This morning I noticed three things, like nondescript wallpaper.
I’ve had to do this once before when we had to lay off two people and cut three others down in time. That was four years ago.This morning I noticed three things on the way in to work. The first thing was the advocates handing out literature for their politicians who are running for office in my district – Helen Sears and Danny Dromm. They’ve been slugging it out, calling each other names and dragging each other in the mud.The second thing was that the police were at their posts in the lobby, arms crossed rocking back and forth on their heels by the folding table they use to check bags on.
My stomach flutters in anticipation of the “Sit down,” and “Close the door’s,” that I’ll have to do.
The third thing was the Atalaya or Watchtower people at the top of the subway stairs, holding their handouts high, not soliciting, but just waiting there as we passed by, smiles on their faces. You have to pass them just as you go down and into the heat that seems to rise up from the underground these days – rising up as I walk down.
–Joe Lunievicz
