Accidents Happen

I was working on a short article about clear broth, thin soup, and how work feels that way these days for so many people. It is a soup that is unsatisfied and people keep feeding on it.

I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking and said, “Clear broth” and it deleted everything I dictated up until that point — the entire article. I don’t know how to retrieve it or if it’s even possible to. It’s not retrievable in Word and, momentarily, I was tempted to invest a lot of time to retrieve it.

It wasn’t the best piece of work I’ve done but it was good. Now, I could’ve written the entire piece again but decided against it, preferring to take a lesson from it and move forward.

If you’ve ever watched the play, “Les Mis,” (pick one of the examples of the 10th-anniversary performance on YouTube or, if available, the movie on whatever streaming service you use) there are many breathtaking songs in it. One, very early in the play/movie is a song where Jean Valjean is caught stealing silver from a monastery that he is briefly staying in. When questioned by police, the priest who runs the monastery claims that he is given the silver as a gift to him and says them away.

He tells Valjean, “But remember this, my brother, see this higher plan, you must use this precious silver, to become an honest man. By the witness of the martyr, by the passion and the blood, God…