<p>I have volunteered for the first of these ‘brown-bag lunch presentations’ and am not shy to admit (at least, to myself and Jeremy) that I did so simply to get it out of the way. I have little desire to participate in team-building exercises in the context of an organization that exists solely to facilitate one-on-one interactions in a professional context.</p>
<p>My thoughts on this whole process are clear, so I shall not complain any further.</p>
<p>I have decided, it is occupying my mind of late, to talk about discernment and the reasons that I am where I am now and not wearing vestments<supid="fnref:kaypresentation"><aclass="footnote-ref"href="#fn:kaypresentation">1</a></sup>. I already even have the example of my client who is going through his own form of secular discernment.</p>
<p>To that end, I have been toying with the balance of life story to academic content, and have decided to lean perhaps 80% of my presentation on individual stories (both mine and that of a few anonymized clients), and then set that within the framework of psychology.</p>
<p>The core idea of what I want to share, I think, is the importance of taking one’s time to make decisions, as well as to understand the unavoidable malleability of those decisions and long-term plans. The things that decide the outcome of long-term decisions may, after all, be long-term problems. You may, for instance, be a stupendously awkward coyote trying to wedge himself into a position of social grace that requires absolute earnestness.</p>
<p>I have been collecting notes about my own process of discernment, as well as examples of discernment in others to pull together into this speech:</p>
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<li>I had my dreams interrupted by a sudden recognition of reality.</li>
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