Thursday I got my computer is back from Chuck and it’s faster than ever.  It seems that even though I do the ccleaner and defrag after each computer session, AOL has its own hidden temporary folder where 8200 items were hiding. Yay to Chuck for finding them all.   I find that my personal growth work is like that, too.  I can do my best to refine my character and drop unnecessary or unkind behaviors, to define goals and move in a focused way toward them, but during my contemplation time, whatever is unfinished will rise to the surface and offer itself to me. It’s a daily occurrence, sometimes an hourly occurrence.  I remind myself that it may be a hidden file, but it’s also a temporary file.  I’m sure there’s more hiding in there to be worked on, but peering into the abyss is not as dark and foreboding as it used to be.  I even see a light at the end of the tunnel.