Have you ever been sitting in the water at the beach, you know, about deep enough to cover your legs. Maybe playing with a child, maybe digging in the sand with your hands and feet, or maybe just being there.

And after a while, when you’re all calm and you can feel the stress leaving your body in waves and your spirit getting higher and you can see that things are just right and it might all work out anyway? You feel hope. You have found peace.

Without warning, a rogue wave comes in and bowls you over, strong enough to knock you down and fill your mouth and eyes with seawater mixed with some sargossum, strong enough that you are disoriented and dizzy for a moment; you finally sit up and catch your breath and go “WTF?”

That’s what work is like today.