Notes on Kirby
March 17, 2009, Always Learning:
Kirby, my oldest, is 22. He spoke at the HENA conference in Arizona
on March 7. He said three things that surprised me. One was that he
explained that when he was young his parents (me, one of them, and I
was sitting there) hadn't told him no much, but had helped him see the
possible outcomes of various decisions, and then supported what he
decided. So he was saying we had helped him figure out how to make
decisions, early on. And now that he's grown, I've seen him make
some really good ones. He's just moved into a house with his
apartment-mate and another friend, and a fourth is moving in next
month, I think. They did a great job, it seemed, of deciding whether,
how and when to move, and pulling it off in an efficient way (in the
two days before he left for the conference in Arizona).
The other two surprising things, for the record, were he totally
bragged up his brother Marty (who wasn't there), and he credited
Pokemon for the trajectory that led him to the job he's in now. I
hadn't thought of it that way, but when he told it, the whole picture
came flooding back, of why he started hanging out at Active
Imagination in the first place (the gaming shop in which he worked
from 14 to 19).
Sandra
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