Strange Meeting

I sat through a one-and-a-half-hour-plus meeting this morning and enjoyed every minute of it.

Have the streaming nose, sore throat and force three headache I'm struggling against finally made me lose all sense of reality? No. It is possible to have fruitful focused meetings that deal with real issues and have real and immediate results. In my experience of the last twenty or so years such meetings have generally been planning meetings for drama productions involving the core team, and today's was no exception.

It helps that the only thing anyone is interested in at such meetings is getting whatever one is doing to work as well as possible. And it helps that when you're dealing with people who know what they're talking about you know the talk is worth listening to. In fact, it's beyond that. The ideas inspire, inflame and you suddenly start to see something you could never have seen on your own.

Yowza!