Husband's five (or fifteen) minutes of fame
I just got done listening to husband being interviewed on a local radio station about his recent policy paper for about 15 minutes. After being published as the main editorial in the newspaper last week, he was offered a spot to discuss this afternoon on am talk radio. I listened to him streaming live from the radio station's website just now. It was a tough interview, but he did very well. I was so nervous for him, that I came to the realization that I don't know if I could ever do that successfully.
At the risk of being redundant and having some of my readers roll their eyes- I just have to say YIPPEE for husband! It is an exciting time for him. His biggest dreams focuses around making effective change through policy research. It is finally happening for him. For the first time in his research career (started several years back in D.C.) something that he has researched up and down is making a big impact on the way that people, including legislators are thinking about energy policy. I am so proud of him, however, more than that I am just so happy for him. Getting published and then getting a lot of media attention in his line of work is comparable to winning a big company's business or getting awarded a lot of money to do your work. Although it is good that he is successful at his job, for him it is more about personal fulfillment and knowing that he is working toward a better world.
Jff, being one of the most modest people I know, has said little about his policy and local media fame. Aside from his family he has told almost no one that he was the featured editorialist last week or that he was being interviewed today. So when people do notice, ekm, our frisbee team, and many of our progressive dinner friends (who were busy calling up the editorial on the web and reading it during our party), it makes me happy for him. He deserves just a little bit of recognition from his friends for doing something that most of us will probably never do and that speaks largely to his intellect and dedication to his work.
So-go ahead and roll them, if you need to. To the friends of ours who have taken time to acknowledge, even in tiny ways, Jff's exciting time: Thank you. You are true friends and illustrate what it feels like to have a community of supporters for all the small and big successes in life.
At the risk of being redundant and having some of my readers roll their eyes- I just have to say YIPPEE for husband! It is an exciting time for him. His biggest dreams focuses around making effective change through policy research. It is finally happening for him. For the first time in his research career (started several years back in D.C.) something that he has researched up and down is making a big impact on the way that people, including legislators are thinking about energy policy. I am so proud of him, however, more than that I am just so happy for him. Getting published and then getting a lot of media attention in his line of work is comparable to winning a big company's business or getting awarded a lot of money to do your work. Although it is good that he is successful at his job, for him it is more about personal fulfillment and knowing that he is working toward a better world.
Jff, being one of the most modest people I know, has said little about his policy and local media fame. Aside from his family he has told almost no one that he was the featured editorialist last week or that he was being interviewed today. So when people do notice, ekm, our frisbee team, and many of our progressive dinner friends (who were busy calling up the editorial on the web and reading it during our party), it makes me happy for him. He deserves just a little bit of recognition from his friends for doing something that most of us will probably never do and that speaks largely to his intellect and dedication to his work.
So-go ahead and roll them, if you need to. To the friends of ours who have taken time to acknowledge, even in tiny ways, Jff's exciting time: Thank you. You are true friends and illustrate what it feels like to have a community of supporters for all the small and big successes in life.
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