Reflections On The Road To Respect

The Best of EricaHope you’ve enjoyed our brief but glorious summer season. Out here on the “Left” coast we had an unusually hot and somewhat humid summer, making me exceeding grateful that I chose to install central air when I moved into my home.By the time you read this, I will be on the other coast, visiting family and friends in Montreal and Toronto after helping my daughter get settled in the room in residence that will be her home for the next few months.I officially started my sabbatical on August 1st. What I have noticed thus far is how challenging it can be to live an unstructured life; to do what I feel like doing rather than what I “should” be doing; to focus on being rather than doing; to be “unproductive” rather than checking things off the ever expanding to do list.One of final tasks on my list was to select the “best of” Reflections on the Road to Respect posts for the fall distribution dates. This month I am sharing the very first enews article I wrote back in March 2006.What struck me upon r