this morning #2152.

this morning, with a playful wag of the finger & a quick clicking of her lips, she expressed her dismay in a way that let the rest of us know that, while she wasn’t going to come out & say how frustrated she was with us, she wasn’t on board with our antics. a few minutes later, she quietly excused herself from the meeting right in the middle of the proposal. after a half hour had passed, she still hadn’t come back so i quietly excused myself as well to go look for her. make sure she was ok. didn’t find her in the hall, the bathroom or at her desk so i checked outside. found her sitting on a bench. on the phone. crying. clearly not ok but i realized that it wasn’t my place to try to assure her that everything’s fine so i just went back inside.