Time Passes

I spent today facilitating a discussion among the labor relations managers at CSX Railroad, and working on matters related to the 75th anniversary celebration that is coming up at the National Mediation Board. At the moment, I'm sitting in the Jacksonville airport, waiting for a flight that is delayed by the computer glitch that shut down Atlanta (and in a domino effect, had an impact on pretty much everyone else on the east coast).

Next week Julia and I head out together for a few days to get reaquainted after my couple of month round of travel and having my head buried in more projects than I can count. Alan Tidwell accused me of being a "work slut" - and I confess that he's probably right. At any rate, there are some good things going on.

Jeff just got back from Vienna, where he arranged for the Brazil PeaceTones group to perform for the World Justice Forum - we got a lot of good buzz from that, and I hope we can push out another couple of collections soon.

The proposal that the SMU class wrote for Afghanistan is in the hands of an NGO in Kabul, and there is a good chance that some part of that proposal will actually get into an action plan on the ground there.

I'm working on getting the proposal for the children's center/playground in Bethlehem out and in the works - I still have some hope that we can do something with that before Christmas.

All in all, it's been a pretty interesting year, and I hope to use the next month and a half to tie up a lot of loose ends so I can begin the new year with renewed hope and determination.