Here's what I feel I'm good at
Pulling all the pieces together so that a complex situation makes sense.
Working with others, asking questions, listening to answers, until I feel the complete picture-not just see it. Then I can feel my way to the precise next step.
Pursuing the issues that keep us awake at night: with my clients, my co-workers, my family.
I feel I am solid in a crisis. Let's confront the disruptive stuff. Let's deal with what troubles us so we can find our way through it. Then we can sleep...peacefully.
Saying no. Explaining why. It isn't always easy, but I'm good at both.
Doing the morally right thing, giving and receiving fair treatment, giving credit where due, arriving early, staying late, understanding that budgets and schedule commitments aren't fudge but promises to be kept.
Remembering that the central element in the client-agency work is the hyphen,
the part that connects.
Some things I'm not so good at
Staying in the presence of dishonest, manipulative, self-serving people. Accepting fake.
Accepting inferior quality. Being asked to pretend bad taste is good.
Settling for good enough when better is available.
What rings my bell
My husband, my kids, my family and great friends. My Irish Catholic background, and my deep faith in the goodness of humankind, especially when I get to experience it in my life, as I often do.
John Singer Sargent, Adele, Earth, Wind & Fire, great design, typography, paper and pattern, artists' journals, Steve McQueen, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her mother-in-law, firemen, Montana.
Latin dancing, Celtic music, Anything having to do with India: the colors, fabrics, religions,
the unbelievable people. Drawing. Learning to cook.
Christmas...all of it. Jewelry. Fashion. English gardens. Feeling that Heaven really exists. Friday nights. New beginnings.
