Learnings

I’ll never forget that morning, I was on a “sabbatical” from college and was lucky that my grandfather offered me a job while I figured out what I wanted to do.

I was in an early morning discussion just last week in a room I'd never visited before when a small sign grabbed my attention. It wasn’t that I was bored with the interaction that had my gaze wandering around the room, in fact, it was a phenomenal reading and deep diving discussion into human relationships.

Playing golf, at least improving ones’ game, is really pretty similar to the process of recovering from a brain injury, or for that matter, an individual’s self-improvement journey throughout a lifetime. For one thing, they’re both never-ending processes without finite endpoints where perfection is achieved, or even distinct completeness.

After learning of Jim’s accident, Kathy and Jim reconnected. In 2013, Jim started speaking to some of Kathy’s classes where she now taught in Westborough High School in Westborough, MA. Now in 2021, Jim and Kathy decided to share their reflections on their journey from starting out as student and teacher to becoming colleagues and friends.

As I sit here typing 15 years to the day after my car crash, the fact that I’m typing a new blog post leaves me full of gratitude, let alone that I can sit up on my own in a chair. Just the possibility that sharing my experience along this TBI recovery journey can help someone in their own life, or provide even a positive thought, gives me joy!

And on that note, I return to the way I rectify the seeming contradiction that is my Spiritual view on the universe:  Why God, an entity representing pure love, created a world where difficult, often painful, the “bitter” if you will, things even occur? Herein lies the majesty of God’s work!