26 Sep 2006
The Other Shoe

shoe droppingKnow what that is, over there to the left? That's a shoe. Specifically the other shoe. It dropped yesterday afternoon.

I no longer have any programming contracts - 1/2 of our income will disappear as of Saturday.

It's pretty grim. I'm pretty down. I may allow myself some time to wallow in self-pity, but I will not give up. We'll survive, and eventually thrive.

Coincidence or not, the first item that popped up in my newsreader today was this little gem. Then I went back and read a post of my own from May. And I remembered this bit, from the novel Dune by Frank Herbert:

The Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

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