I'm not proud of myself
but I cannot tell you how happy I was when I called the office today
and found my Thursday afternoon bookclub had been canceled. I
would've gone if they did have bookclub but the weather has been
borderline foul. Not really bad but severely overcast and threatening
rain or snow all day. I usually don't call to find out I just show up
at the library,but today I did Call in glad that I did. Is able to
stay home in the heat of the apartment.
If our bookclub was super
active and we had a group of seven great folks then attending the
bookclub regardless of the weather scenario would not be a problem.
However, I've noticed in the past number of weeks a continual decline
of participation of consumers or folks that we serve.. In fact the
last couple weeks is mainly been staff from the DD Council. And
that's a little frustrating. I'm trying not to take responsibility
for such diminishing attendance but like I said in the past, many
times once I get involved the program the program tends to implode on
itself is that pathetic or what? So now I'm the Grim Reaper of the
bookclub.
In fact, I really like the
bookclub I really believe in the concept and power of reading. It
really did not take me much to get behind this program. I was sore
drafted into this position from my boss or my former boss who is the
director of the DD Council here in Salt Lake. She's renowned for
starting these kind projects and then spinning the projects off to
cable folk. Where I did necessarily get stuck with running the
program, thank goodness, I did feel a responsibility in helping
keeping the project going. It's been kind of difficult trying to
figure out just what I'm supposed be doing in this program since I'm
not really affiliated technically with the DD Council anymore nor am
I a member of the bookclub as a participant (as I see it). Maybe
that's the joke is that I am one of the participants even though I
see myself as not being developmentally disabled as the other
participants. However, I am developmentally disabled by definition of
the law because I had my major disability before the age of 18 are
whatever that cutoff date is. So I could technically be an actual
member of the group but boy I sure have a immediate step back from
that particular level of involvement. That's just my silly pride. I
liked reading with the guys in fact I'm so glad that I'm not
necessarily in the more supervisory functions of the group. I'm sure
those folks think I'm just another one of the DD folks that got
sucked into reading every Thursday afternoon come rain or shine…
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