Tuesday, April 05, 2011

Beautiful Surroundings, Ugly Memories




This was the second Parkinson's Support Group Facilitator's Conference I have attended.  As was the first, this one was held in the beautiful facilities of the Sierra Health Foundation's office building on Garden Highway.  What's not to love about this place?  The large meeting room easily accommodates 50 or 60 people seated around tables but doesn't feel overly large for the group of 25 that we had today.

 
Buffet facilities are just outside the meeting room so you can get your food and come back in or, on beautiful days like today, move out onto the patio to enjoy the sunshine, river breeze, and the lush spring riparian foliage like we did today.
 
Looks good enough to be computer wallpaper, doesn't it?  This is the view from the patio.

 
Another view from the patio shows how wide the river is at this point and also shows how high the water level is.  The usual riverside walkway is covered by several inches of water along much of the trail.  If you want to take a walk today, you'll need to wear waders.
 



Besides the beautiful setting, the conference was well planned and carried out.  So what's wrong? It was at this facility that my career took a decidedly unexpected turn when my boss was fired by the board of directors and I was asked to take over as acting CEO.  With a board that trusted me only slightly more than my boss, my tenure as CEO was luckily short-lived.  But the memories linger on and it may still be some time before I can fully enjoy the Sierra Health Foundation campus.

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