Dear Precious Katy,
Today you start your new job – a big, important change-the-world job, and we’re so proud of you!
I know your kindness and competence will win the day, but I also know that as you carefully choose your professional outfit this morning, the “hyper-responsible you” will be worried.
You know there will be days when you mess up, or there’s a misunderstanding, or you have to say hard words, or ask forgiveness in your job, just like in all of life.
And you may feel like you did when you were 5 years old and wrote this sign, taping it to your bedroom door.
“Do not come in! P.S. I will be under the covers.”
I think what you meant (what all of us often mean) is: Continue reading