Recalculating

Earlier this week, I went to a forum for people around the state who are
interested in early childhood issues.  Just as everyone else in the nation,
our profession has seen funding cuts and loss of jobs.  The keynote
speaker was a passionate woman who guided us to think about this
time in our country as a "recalculating" time; just as if we had a GPS
guiding us in our work.

So, in a time of changes and shifts into what we thought we knew,
we are now challenged to go into a recalculating time. Our learning
curve has been shifted and we are going to have to get creative
and think of things differently.

How many times in our lives do we have to recalculate? Sometimes
it comes in lumps, sometimes it's spread out.  But in the end, we
do survive.  The lesson here? It's not what happens to you, but
who you have along your side and what you learn from the
experience.