Pithy Cakes: Quippy Confections about Making It Through
By Jill Loree
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Pithy Cakes is a collection of a few dozen original confections, mash-ups of Jill Loree’s life and spiritual path. Crafted to edify and also delight, they are short, a bit fun, and made to hit the spot. Sort of like a cupcake. The frosting? A handful of poems sprinkled about.
Made with inspiration. Best enjoyed with coffee.
Jill Loree
A neatnik with a ready sense of humor, Jill Loree’s first job as a root-beer-stand carhop in northern Wisconsin was an early sign that things could only get better.She would go on to throw pizzas and bartend while in college, before discovering that the sweet spot of her 30-year sales-and-marketing career would be in business-to-business advertising. A true Gemini, she has a degree in chemistry and a flair for writing. Her brain fires on both the left and right sides.That said, her real passion in life has been her spiritual path. Raised in the Lutheran faith, she became a more deeply spiritual person in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous, a spiritual recovery program, starting in 1989. In 1997, she was introduced to the wisdom of the Pathwork, which she describes as “having walked through the doorway of a fourth step and found the whole library.”She completed four years of Pathwork Helpership training in 2007 followed by four years of apprenticing and discernment before stepping into her full Helpership in 2011. She has been a teacher in the Transformation Program offered at Sevenoaks Retreat Center in Madison, Virginia, operated by Mid-Atlantic Pathwork, where she also led marketing activities for over two years and served on the Board of Trustees.In 2012, Jill completed four years of kabbalah training in a course called the Soul’s Journey, achieving certification for hands-on healing using the energies embodied in the tree of life.Not bad for a former pom-pom squad captain who once played Dolly in Hello Dolly! She is now the proud mom of two adult children, Charlie and Jackson, who were born and raised in Atlanta. Jill Loree is delighted to be married to Scott Wisler, but continues to use her middle name as her last (it’s pronounced loh-REE). In her spare time she enjoys reading, writing, yoga, golf, skiing and hiking, especially in the mountains.In 2014, she consciously decoupled from the corporate world and is now dedicating her life to writing and teaching about spirituality, personal healing and self-discovery.Catch up with Jill at www.phoenesse.com.
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Pithy Cakes - Jill Loree
All the Way Back to the C-Prompt
A colleague of mine, back when I worked for a company that made banking software, once told me how the company’s product didn’t always perform as expected. In the middle of one particular sales demo, in front of a room full of people, she found herself, as she described it, Blown all the way back to the C-prompt. My hiney-hole was puckered up tighter than this,
she said, holding up her hand with the index finger curled into a little ball.
One thing I’ve noticed about computers is that they can, in about two minutes, take me all the way back to a childlike place of totally irrational behavior: impatient, frustrated, exasperated and downright angry. Yep, essentially a three-year old.
So what’s going on here? How is it that I, a normally logical and rational adult with a decent amount of smarts, can come unglued so readily when a computer won’t do right? I suspect it relates to one of my childhood-created strategies for survival: I have to figure everything out—myself.
I was the third child in a family destined to trudge through some serious stuff on the road to happy destiny. The long and the short of it is that I was not spoken to much as a child. The world is a bit tricky to sort out as it is, but it can be downright frightening to make sense of on your own.
So when that little box-of-logic doesn’t work right, I don’t default to slowing down and getting curious. No, I tend to come unglued and lose my grounding. Like a lost and anxious child, I have found myself on the phone with the help desk, finding it hard to use my words. With my Helper-hat on, I ask myself, How old do I feel right now?
To which I want to stick out my tongue. So there.
Recently, I found myself caught in a phone war between GoDaddy and Verizon, each offering their logical explanations for why the problem with my website must lie with the other service. I had to coach myself to breathe, reminding myself that they were there to help. If I could just stay rational and sane, they were going to help me get through this. And eventually they did.
Today, I spend enough time not in that immature child-place, to recognize it when I find myself there. Much of life, in fact, is about learning to come out of these trance-like states that we snap into so fast, when something unexpectedly blows us all the way back to the C-prompt.
Or Not to Be
I’d hoped that he might turn into
A keeper,
Who’d share his humor and his heart
With me.
Instead I got this thing on
Dry erase board,
A picture of some flowers
And a be.
He said he couldn’t give me
What I wanted,
A lifetime of the laughter
We had shared.
He only had this simple print
To offer,
A stinging sort of symbol
That he cared.
So now I’m stuck with this dumb
Dry erase board,
Ephemeral as snowflakes
In the Spring,
Just begging to be smudged by