Watch the Walk

Meet Jack, he's not scared of anything A couple of months ago I started hearing a phrase everywhere-- on the streets, in class, in taxis, and yelled by my neighbors. And it always seemed to garner a reaction, maybe a little embarrassment on the part of the person questioned, while others would invariably laugh. A "gotcha" moment. "Whatcha scared of?" - they ask. It's interesting how language evolves and catch phrases develop. Word has it that the phrase  originally came from a radio host. It was adopted in relation to a new telecommunications company in town: what are you afraid of, to buy a SIM card with the new company? But language changes, and the catch phrase came to apply to a number of things. Like crossing the street. You can hardly pause a moment to check traffic before an interested islander will yell "whatcha scared of?" at you. What are you afraid of? Certainly not being hit by a car.... There are a lot of situations where it can be us...

This face brought to you by coffee In trying to start writing on my blog again, I started thinking about those things that make a difference. I was without a team here on Clove for about 2.5 months, but now my team leaders have returned. "What good is a team?" you might ask. Well, sometimes it's just those little things that make all the difference. These last couple of weeks I've been running long days with little margins of spare time, and a lot of the work has been highly brain-intensive. The first couple of days I drank coffee before leaving home, then had instant coffee while working. But it just wasn't doing the job. We were all dragging. And my team leaders weren't involved personally with the project, but they offered to help in any way we needed. So I asked them to make coffee. And faithfully, every morning, they did. Lord bless the coffee makers of this world. Is there someone you can be making coffee for this week?