Days 5-8 (Hopefully Day 14+ is d/c)

This is the boring part.  Lots of waiting for what the medical community affectionately calls 'engrafment'--that magical process by which blood cell counts and other lab results return to normalcy.

Been re-reading "Dare to Lead" by Brene Brown.  Biggest ideas thus far:

THE HEART OF DARING LEADERSHIP

1. You can't get to courage without rumbling with vulnerability.  Embrace the suck
2. Self-awareness and self-love matter.  Who we are is how we lead
3. Courage is contagious . To scale daring leadership and building courage in teams and organizations, we have to cultivate a culture in which brave work, tough conversations, and whole hearts are the expectation, and armor . [defensiveness which prevents authentic communication] is not necessary or rewarded

Dr. Brown has some practical ideas here to transform our leadership from control to reward and from defensive to vulnerable and authentic.

Still shooting for a d/c date of approximately 5/23.

I've also been ramping up my sophistication in the cell group (Christian Community Experiments) by reading Joel Comiskey's "How to make disciples in the 21st century".  The biggest takeaway thus far is that American individualism is a major obstacle to creating authentic community experience.

See brochure included in Find post entitled "Michael and the Balrog Days" and go to bottom for brochure.