Do Your Best

There's a young guy who occasionally comes to the meeting who just completed his master's degree in social work and took a job as a counselor working for the State of California.  Before the end of his first week of training he was told that the funding for his position had been rescinded.  He did get paid for the week of training but now  . . . no job.  He is in good spirits and reflective.  He's got a good Program going so he has the tools to handle the ups and downs of life.  I sent him a note about how impressed I was with his equanimity, adding some standard Seaweed bullshit boilerplate about how the real trick in life comes in handling the ups and downs that inevitably come our way.

He sent me a couple of pictures of kittens answering the question "what do you do for a living?" by saying "I do my best."