What’s Gone Well Today? ®
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When has someone made your day with the service they’ve given, or something they’ve said or done for you? Sharing these moments may inspire others. They lift the spirit!
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On a walk along a very familiar route we ran into a very cute dog, and talked to his owner, Helen. Rusty is a wonderful friend. When people come to the door, even from the other side of the door, he can tell if they are family or strangers. If they are strangers he will go and find Helen and make sure she knows about strangers are there.
An earlier moment that went so well!
Years ago, I was visiting a friend who lives far from me and had a strange urge to head home earlier than we’d planned. I hopped on the 26 bus home and sat beside a young man who was watching How to Train Your Dragon on his cellphone.
He noticed I was watching and we had a chat about how great the movie was, and then he offered me one of his earphones so I could listen as well. We watched this movie together for the next 20 minutes or so until I regrettably had to get off. It was a wonderful human bonding moment and I’ll never forget it.
I enjoyed chatting with Christopher at the Greater Great Victoria Conversation event yesterday. I was very impressed with the positive, constructive spirit throughout the presentations and breakout groups. The statement “the wisdom is in this room” was repeated often, and was clearly in play, from my perspective.
Christopher asked about my profession. I have been a BOOK PUBLISHER, but that explanation or title seems to have somewhat expired in this era of ebooks, audiobooks, apps, print-on-demand, self-publishing, Amazon/ Google/ Apple/ Facebook dominance, tweeting, blogs, cell phones, tablets, etc. Hardly any aspects of the book publishing world are the same as when I published my first book in 1975. Time to call what I do, what I am actually doing, I guess…
I am a “FACILITATOR TO STORYTELLERS”. I help with the process of bringing the story someone has in their mind – to others. I help plan what to do, edit, arrange design, produce printed book editions, and other editions (audiobooks, ebooks, apps, multi-touch books, etc.), and help with letting potential readers/viewers know about the story.
thanks, cheers, Bruce Batchelor
Today, there was a girl sitting outside on campus and she seemed a little down despite the sunny day today. I walked up to her and asked her if anything was wrong. She responded that no, nothing was wrong but she thanked me for noticing her. We talked a bit about what we were each doing at school. She’s a second year in Psychology. I had to leave but when I did she said thank-you for noticing
There was a woman at a bus stop with me and so I asked her where, if money were no problem, would she go in the world. She said Iceland; she wants to see the unique landscape of ice and volcanoes. She’s interested in the rocks and what that looks like in person. She said that she sees videos of Iceland and it looks absolutely beautiful. I also want to go to Iceland and it’s always interesting to learn about the multiplicity of reasons to go travelling in someone else’s town or country
As I left the Oak Bay Rec Centre I heard him say, “Thanks for the call.” He’s never left anything behind at the gym before, but this time it was his favourite racket. While he was grateful for the rec centre phoning him, what he was really jazzed about was the person who turned it in to them.
He really wanted other people to know about how happy he was!