Notes from the Dishwasher Café

Notes from the Dishwasher Café

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Notes from the Dishwasher Café
Notes from the Dishwasher Café
I AM SUGGESTING THAT YOU DODGE YOUR PROBLEMS AND RUN FROM CONFLICT

I AM SUGGESTING THAT YOU DODGE YOUR PROBLEMS AND RUN FROM CONFLICT

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Caroline Manring
Feb 24, 2023
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Notes from the Dishwasher Café
Notes from the Dishwasher Café
I AM SUGGESTING THAT YOU DODGE YOUR PROBLEMS AND RUN FROM CONFLICT
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As an earnest, honest, oversized-brow-furrowing Muppet, I want to take Hard Things head-on, all at once, with much vigorous head movement.

I desire to resolve what Hard Things come my way by facing them, staring them down with giant google-eyes, and ramming them with my blue felt forehead until they REACT POORLY, which will allow me to know which abuses to yell, in my Muppet voice. Then I want to keep ramming, with more and more of my blue felt forehead, until the Hard Thing stops being a thing I don’t like (in theory it runs away, admitting defeat to my superior commitment and insight).

There are drawbacks to my system. For instance, it doesn’t work.

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