8 FEBRUARY 2024 WorldWide Drilling Resource® 35th Annual Best in the West Drill & Blast Conference April 17-19, 2024 Spearfish Holiday Inn Convention Center Spearfish, South Dakota Tuesday, April 16 - Registration and early exhibit set-up (after 10am or before noon on Wednesday). Wednesday, April 17 - Regulatory Session, Crazy Horse Mountain Tour, Paul Muehl Memorial Trap Shoot, Bob Martin Scholarship Golf Scramble, and Primer Hour. Thursday, April 18 - Technical Sessions, Booster Hour, Banquet, Scholarship Auction. Friday, April 19 - Technical Sessions. Booths close after 10am coffee break. Conference ends after lunch. Every Day - Exhibitor booths with the latest in blasting technology and products, lunch, door prizes, and much more! Blaster recertification credit hours available for Wyoming and many other states! Register today at: bitwconference.org/register.html Closeness vs. Distance by Tim Connor You can be a million miles apart and feel as close as the next heartbeat, or in the same bed and feel hundreds of miles apart. Have you ever had the experience of feeling really separated or far apart from your partner even though you were within touching distance? Have you ever felt really close to someone you see infrequently? I have had both experiences in my life and have tried to determine the root cause of these feelings regardless of the distance which separated me from my loved one. I don’t have a definitive answer, but think I am getting a lot closer to the heart of the issue. Types of closeness or distance are physical, emotional, sexual, spiritual, and psychological. I have felt really close emotionally to someone yet a million miles apart physically. I have felt a great valley of distance between a spouse spiritually yet a closeness in family or financial agendas. If you are in a relationship and do not feel intimately close to your significant other in any of the above ways, I suggest you consider why you may be experiencing this distance. The real problem is to be close in some ways yet distant in others. For example, if you have a greater need for more affection, emotional closeness, or romance, and your significant other has a greater need for more physical closeness, you will never bridge this gap focusing on a totally unrelated common area in your relationship such as money, career, or children. You will tend to bring the unresolved resentments, baggage, expectations, guilt, etc. into the other areas of your relationship. You may not do this consciously, but you will certainly do it unconsciously. There are a number of causes to these feelings of distance or closeness which can be summarized in just three: 1. Expectations - You want or expect a certain type of attitude, response, action, word, or feedback from your spouse and it hardly ever or never comes. You have an expectation and are constantly disappointed. These unfulfilled expectations can lead to a variety of resentments and disappointments, then anger, and finally apathy. 2. Needs and/or desires - You or your significant other have no interest in knowing, understanding, or satisfying some or any of your basic emotional or physical needs or wants. 3. Agendas - Your agendas are purely self-focused and you therefore set your partner up for disappointment wherever you go or whatever you do. I’m sure you’ve heard it said, “The passion is gone in our relationship.” Passion is not in a relationship any more than fun is in a job. If the passion is gone, it is because there is no more passion in the two people in the relationship. A relationship doesn’t have feelings or emotions. People either bring them to a relationship or they don’t. So, if there is emotional distance in your relationship, it is not because these are missing, but because they are missing in one or both of you. In His service, Tim Tim Connor may be contacted via e-mail to michele@worldwidedrillingresource.com “To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.” ~Anonymous
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