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About Rusty Rueff

Rusty Rueff, author of purposed worKING. Rusty Rueff is the former Chairman Emeritus of The GRAMMY Foundation in Los Angeles. He most recently completed the successful 16 month leadership role as Coordinating National Co-Chair for Technology for Obama (T4O) for the reelection of President Obama and ten-years of Board service and President of the Board of Trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Corporately, most recently Rueff was the Chief Executive Officer at SNOCAP, Inc. until the acquisition of the company by imeem, Inc. in April 2008. Before joining SNOCAP in 2005, he was Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Electronic Arts (EA) from 1998 until 2005. He was also with the PepsiCo companies for more than ten years, with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies for two years, and in commercial radio as an on-air personality for six years. Rusty holds an M.S. in counseling and a B.A. in radio and television from Purdue University. In 2003 he was named a distinguished Purdue alumnus, and he and his wife, Patti, are the named benefactors of Purdue’s Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts. He is a corporate director of Glassdoor.com and runcoach. He is the co-founder and Executive Committee Member of T4A.org, serves on the Founding Circle of The Centrist Project and a founding Board Member of The GRAMMY Music Education Coalition. He is also the co-author of the book Talent Force: A New Manifesto for the Human Side of Business. Rusty and his wife, Patti, reside in Hillsborough, CA and Charlestown, R.I.

day 2807: Postpartum Blues

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“No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Yesterday, Patti went golfing.  So?  Well, since March the 13th, the two of us have not been out of the house, apart from each other, for any longer than the time to go to the grocery store (most of the times going together) or to go out for a walk or a run.  But yesterday, she left just after 8am and didn’t come home until noon.  Theo, our French Bulldog, kept looking around for her and quite honestly, I did too.  It made me wonder if we aren’t all going to go through some form of “postpartum blues” of separation when we head back to work or back out into our own patterns leaving others behind or them also out on their own again leaving us behind.  We have to do it, of course, but as we accept our employees and co-workers back into the workplace let’s be sensitive and considerate that they/we might all be going through our own blues.

I can’t imagine the loss that the Disciples felt when Jesus was taken from them.  They must have felt like God had abandoned them on so many levels.  Faced with uncertainty on what to do next, likely holed up together in fear of what might happen to them next and mourning the loss of the One who they thought was going to be their King. What we experience in loss and separation is so little compared to this, but we can learn from their experience.  They moved forward.  It was not easy, but they found their own personal ways and each of them went back into the world to continue to follow Jesus and share His message. We are soon going to get our own opportunity to go back into the world and what will we take with us as the message we want to share?

Reference:  Romans 8:39 (New Living Translation)