Useful

Several interesting conversations this week.  My trainer asked me if I keep a daily journal of my medical symptoms.  I told her I blog... but the blog is way more than medical.  I found myself naming, to a fellow therapist, that part of my vocation has always been to apply for positions I knew would not consider me a viable candidate due to my gender and/or political position.  I have delighted in the interviews, and sometimes...rarely... but sometimes... I have been called.

This week I realized

Part of my vocation

Is to apply for positions

Which may never

Consider me a match.

Still

All the information,

All the experience

I have accumulated

Is useful

Somehow,

Has been useful

Somehow,

Will be useful

Somehow.

And somehow

I know this is true.

Do you keep a journal?

She asks.

I know she thinks particularly

About medical things.

Yes

I say

I blog.

Yet

Medical things are really only

A small piece

Of the whole.