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a
workshop?”
    “No.”   Nat reached
out a hand.   “ We are.   Sometimes
journeys are more fun with company.”
    Her intern looked confused, but curious.   “You don’t need to make more work for
yourself to try to keep me busy.   I
didn’t come back for that.”
    “I know.”   And it
was lovely to see that shift.   “But
busy in the right ways can be a beautiful thing.   Summer is a wonderful time to explore the fullness of who we
are.   I want to hold a workshop
where we use yoga to encourage people to take a look inside and discover
something new about themselves.   I
was hoping you might help me with the workshop design and supporting the people
who come to class.”
    Elsie looked a little panicked.   “I can barely fix my own yoga poses.   I’m not ready to be fixing anyone
else’s.”
    She wasn’t as far away as she thought, but Nat left that
alone.   “You’re a trained
psychologist.   Supporting people
through change is what you do.”
    “You want me to do psychology?   Here?”   Elsie
looked like she’d been asked to dance naked in the streets.   And then she just looked sad.   “I don’t think I’m a therapist
anymore.   I don’t think it’s what
I’m meant to do.”
    Nat wasn’t at all convinced of that, but she knew how to be
patient.   Some truths were best
discovered slowly.   “I wasn’t
thinking of anything too complicated.   Help me come up with some short group exercises we can do during the
classes.   Ways to be mindful, to
focus on a question or an idea that might help participants explore themselves
in a new way.   Use your own journey
as a guide.”
    Total silence.   Nat
waited patiently, trusting the rightness of the idea.   It had come to her in the night, fully formed.   She knew better than to ignore that
kind of gift.
    Elsie’s smile, when it came, was worth waiting for.   “I can do that.”
    “Good.”   Nat leaned
over for her bag, pulling out a notebook.   “Let’s brainstorm.   We start
in two days.”    She hid a grin
as Elsie’s tea nearly came out her nose.   She really hadn’t read the flyer.
    ~ ~ ~
    She knew he was there.   Lizard waved distractedly at a friend down the hallway and headed out of
the building, wondering what the hell Josh was doing skulking outside her
computers class.   She was pretty
sure he was one of those geek types who had graduated without even blinking
hard.
    And if he was going to skulk, he could at least do it without
attracting so much attention.
    Okay, maybe she was a little grumpy.   Sitting through a lecture on the impact of online social
networks while half the class was on their phones texting would have been
funny, if she hadn’t heard echoes of half of their conversations in her
head.   Her mind barriers were
totally leaky today, and she had no idea why.   And the professor had no idea how many of his students
wanted to get naked with somebody on the other end of their phone.
    Which wasn’t helping her grumpy quotient at all, given that the
closest-to-naked guy in her life was a week old and liked to nap all day.
    Josh wasn’t an option—for naked or anything else.   Especially if he was going to skulk.
    She walked out the main doors and found her stalker sitting on
the end of a bench, nose in a computer.   He looked up as she got closer—there were benefits to walking like
an elephant.   “Hey.   Glad I caught you.   Want to grab a burger?”
    “No.”   Her stomach
growled loud enough to cast its own vote.   “I’ll get something on the way to the office—I have to work on some
client maps.”   She didn’t add that
her fingers itched to borrow the prototype tool his team had worked up.   Knowing it could be done faster made
doing things the old-fashioned way really annoying.
    He grinned.   “We
have a version-one web interface ready.   Totally alpha, but Danny’d appreciate if you use it some, let him know
where the bugs are.”
    What, he was reading minds