Not only did I have a public appearance in Ukraine on Tuesday (37,000 views so far, yay!) but I was also invited to give a conference talk today. I was certain that I was expected to speak in Ukrainian, and I had written out my whole talk, quotes, bibliography, everything.
Twenty minutes before the talk I discovered that they wanted me to speak in Spanish. It’s easier for me to speak off-the-cuff in Spanish than in Ukrainian at this point but I had prepared! My tendency to be rigid is experiencing sore trials, indeed.
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