J. D. Grows up

"Hide not thy tears on the last day
Your sorrow has no shame;
To march no more midst lines of gray;
No longer play the game.
Four years have passed in joyful ways - Wouldst stay those old times dear?
Then cherish now these fleeting days,
The few while you are here." JD Salinger

He stays young no more
Or is it only no longer crazed

Not sure why they remember Holden
I thank you for the dream of Jane

Into the More

I'm not sure I can write more
Words will not form
There is so much said
For the little to hear

Into this pollution joined
Not one even knew
What is the anything more
Where could it be found

There's a quality in your quantity
Upon a false quantum ridge
As true as it is false
As here as it is gone

I'm sure I can write some more
Words they still form
There is so much to say
For enough to be heard

I will tell you my more
Or I wouldn't have said a word

How Do You Make An Ocean?

The latest thinking is 4.5 billion years ago there was an Earth, but no Oceans. The water mostly arrived in rocks. Out there floating around what was our earth these wet rocks that looked dry. This dry planet turned green ocean world in a blink of an eye.

Just time and these microscopic specks of water trapped inside rocks floating around a yellow sun. You see the process isn't import just the fact that you create an Ocean in the end. Why make an Ocean? Why make a positive impact on life? There wasn't anything better to do. There isn't anything better to do.

This process makes me very optimistic today. A Cold sunny day on a North Coast. Some believe evolution as an explanation. It is this process. Those who find it hard to accept value other things more. They value their own peace in believing a design that needs no other explanation.

The left and right divide is just a simple bell curve of how we value. When your priorities are different from another: the world is seen from different places. Ask any new born. The world is brighter than we are lead to believe. We try to make sense and peace for the most part thank God. We are very sturdy things and we gird our loins and move forward. The new now is already old.

Think of those 4.5 billion years. Think of those 13.7 billion years. We are made from sturdy things. If you believe in God, know no process is beyond conception. In comparison to what we tell ourselves reality is more optimistic. At this point of History draining the Oceans with a tea-spoon would be a rather straight forward task aside from where to put the water. We got most of everything figured out for us.

You don't need to make oceans...they are made everyday in this universe we share.

Every Way Complete

Love is easy
When pain is fine
Nothing can be taken
When everything you give

There's nothing to deny her
no time to waste alone
Nothing will always find you
Give you less to lose

No one ever tells you
In every way complete
Something to believe in
The chances you can know

Love will find you easy
When pain is fine
nothing can be taken
Everything you give

No words can teach you
In every way complete

The Everyday Way

Everyday you've got a reason to live
Every way there's something more you can give
There's more to you than you can know
So many ways for us to grow

Everyday you've got a reason to strive
Every way there's somehow more to drive
Throughout yourself as we go
Into me through all of we to know

Everyday you've got love to live
Every way there's still more you can give
There's more to it than I can know
So many ways for us to show

Everyday we've got a reason to live
Every way there's something more to give
There's more to we than we can know
So many ways for love to grow

Everyday I've got love to live
Every way there's still more I can give

Name, Title, Company/Location and AGE

Dennis Morgan
Employment and Training Coordinator, Catholic Charities Migration and Refugee Services. 38
Five years Refugee employment, fifteen with Refugees and internally displaced.

Which aspect of my job I like best:
Seeing people change as they become vested in their employment. I see everyday people begin finally to put some normalcy in their lives. Sometime we forget how important work is in that process. My clients come from four different continents. They come with a broad spectrum of abilities and skills. I've seen people succeed over and over. Each client is an individual and seeks different things, but it is very satisfying to see them create a stable environment for many times the first time in their lives.

My Most unusual job placement:
Each business is unique. I once placed four Bantu men in a Forge in Cleveland. None of us had ever seen one the day we drove up and applied. Called to a meeting a week later I actually got to see what they do. First I met with the owner who explained the problem. Next I met with his son the foreman who explained different unrelated problems. The crew chief just looked at me and shook his head.
It was a big hammer, bigger than I had ever seen three stories tall. These four Bantu men were actually forging. They let me watch, one of many safety hazards. To this day I can’t believe what they did for ten dollars an hour. They were trained poorly, but they still got 90% of the job in the first week. They worked in their own section and mostly on their own. They fired them after 10 days because of some simple details they failed to explain. I learned sometimes people have no idea what they are seeing. There isn’t much you can do. We can hope to change peoples thinking, but not always understand what they believe to be true. We moved in a positive direction. One of those men has worked with the Cleveland Schools for five years now.

Advice for recently entered into field:
You must read and study all the best practice material you can find. They call them technical providers for a reason. Each person has their own style and technique, but yours will be unique. Understand what others in your profession are doing. Then always be prepared for something new. Strategies will help you open doors, but what you find inside you can never tell. After five years new things occur on a regular basis. Nothing should surprise you in this job. Keeping lines of communication open with employers and responding to their needs is vital. Many employers appreciate having someone to call who knows their employee and can offer practical advice and support. They are a business and that should never be forgotten.

The key to refugee employment and life is positive momentum. Thing will go wrong, but keep going in a positive direction. I try not to overreact to difficulties or victories. The best way I can serve my clients is to do my job. It is impossible to hide my mistakes. If my clients can't work they can't pay their rent and that is simply unsustainable. The best we can hope is to find our clients jobs where other workers are happy to come to work. There are less of those places in the new “new”, but they are out there and should always be our goal.

Parting shot (please add anything you'd like here):
Having worked with well over 1000 refugees that last five years, my works offers unique retirement benefits; I am very interested to see what the next 40 years brings my clients and their new home here in Cleveland.

The Golden Wave Hypothesis aka The Heart of Gold Band

It's the moment you are honest
When you are everything that you are
Where you are not always wrong
There is someone that really understands

How there is nothing that you did
Why one thing is true
What is ancestral in our bones
Where there was someone who knew

That moment when your honest
When there is someone who is there
Where all things are not wrong
There is someone who can feel

How there is everything to do
Why all things will be true
There was no misunderstanding