Abbe’s Ruminations June 2023 Who Am I?

Welcome to my newsletter, Abbe’s Ruminations. I mull, contemplate, ponder – old and new experiences, finding what I call the joy and laughter of repetition or the abandonment to not knowing.

An innocent question from the sales representative at the Verizon franchise center sent me into a tizzy. The early morning robbery of my FOB to enter my condo building, the key to my door, and the cell phone from my locker where I work- out, might have caused my perplexed state. 

His question was simply, “Who are you?”

Lightness with seriousness

It reminded me of my new dentist who after hearing of my dislike of anesthesia, laughing gas, numbing shots and headphones to help with the new crown, asked, “Well what do you like?”

None of my answers were appropriate.  How do I define myself to a thirty-year-old salesman anxious to make a commission, or a kind doctor whose tools of the trade assumed my buy-in to gizmos versus a gentle kindness?

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