The One and only, lonely: The One question remains...

"Where is this all leading, taking me?" A logical, reasonable question that my professor, then mentor (TG😇!), one the highest educators I ever heard affirm on behalf of a questioner in graduate-professional school, who I thought would have had all the answers, who took the opportunity to model what I came to know as intellectual humility, integrity..."That's a great question...that together we're going to explore and better clarify, if not answer..." A glimpse of what it would take to be an effective "practitioner" But little did I know, at the time, that's what he was up to...took many years to better appreciate, if not put into practice...To be able, with a degree of confidence, conviction, respond to those in my office "So, just where are you leading me, with all these questions...?!" This likely follows or happens in the very midst of the first of a series, perhaps even a sustained course, of Q & A -- mostly "Q" as in "queue" over in the UK..."awaiting their turn to be attended to or proceed..." Which is the very place I kind of left you...You know, waiting in line, or at least in my waiting room, where "They" say..."Life Happens...while you're busy making plans..." A quote attributed to John Lennon, among other notables...

"If that's the case..." I'm in big trouble, given the fact that, when patience was being given out, along with other virtues, given my Taurus-like im-patience, I got out, of line, on many an occasion (interpret this any way you like, it ends up pretty much the same place...) Which could only end up one way, as in all by myself which, at first glance seems to represent what we psychologists call a time and place of "solace" but could, end up, a bit lone-ly..."All by my-Selfie" 🎜🎝-attributed to various artists...

"If only that were true..." An interesting twist, on expressing wishes, desires, doubts, even in the midst of the two (or more) of us seeking answers to the bigger questions you bring...wistful (when was the last time you saw or said this?), more likely wish-full, or even the "amount a person can hold in their clenched hand..." -- as in "fistful" -- more likely in the form of a clenched fist, accompanied by what I interpret, "can't help but notice" in the form of body language (see August 29th for a fuller, in depth account of why you may want to keep a "stiff upper lip" on certain occasions...) -- here experienced, eye witnessed on many such occasion -- such as when you are waiting long and hard for an answer while I, myself, think it, even "let me mull it over here" (when was the last time you saw or heard the person you are in a serious discourse with, describe the process of "thinking about something carefully and for a long time..." Such as when, it today's world of con-textual speech, you may experience as being "left on read"...to the point of feeling ignored...finds you with a clenched jaw which, if accompanied teeth grinding might be referred to as "perhaps you have bruxism, for which there are remedies, such as mouth guards, and relaxation techniques I can show you, if you'll just hang on..." And, if part of a larger system of power-full muscles..."Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction 😁😟😠😢!! (TMJ is what you have probably seen, heard more often), a common pathway for "storm and stress" -- a diagnosis often arrived at, only after you have already (prior to coming to my office, hopefully, so I don't have to "refer back to...") seen by a horde of specialists who have already probed, prodded, and otherwise really "scoped you out" (which will make what we are about to do seem like "child's play"...otherwise be experienced as being "...benign, by comparison..." Nice. 

"Leave you, wanting more..." (?) More likely, if you came...expecting answers and only after a protracted session of "question after question...you should have heard this guy, he just didn't run out of them...😕😖...find you, if I am lucky enough for a return visit..."a bit demanding..." As in "OKay, it's time you came clean Doc, level with me, answer at least one of the three questions I came to your office with, after all this time of mulling them over...it's about time you imparted what you called in our first encounter morsels of wisdom, which kept me coming back...especially, after all this time of waiting patiently (I don't know how you guys do it, I sure couldn't) for at least what I might endorse as partial satisfaction on your website survey, and tell all on Facebook...I think it may have been by design..."

"Come, to find out" As in come back, just one more time, so I can more fully "elucidate" -- when was the last time you saw or heard this as a way of more fully, clearly, explaining, after such a long period of eluding to...

"If you would only, (pretty) P-l-e-a-s-e!" (when was the last time you heard, said, pled this...?)