My profile on the home page of Carol Weltz was on ice for a while as we waited to get our newest version of the website up to speed. In more ways than my long story can account for, Carol is a legend here. Personally, I can’t remember the last time I had tears in my eyes doing an interview, but that’s how it went when I sat down with her. It was just so humbling to listen to her story and, more to the point, to hear the timbre in her voice when she spoke about what she had learned in her life and the insight and compassion with which she applies it to her work in helping others. It’s rare to meet people who’ve achieved such a sublime balance between humility and conviction
Most of us have a story in our minds about ourselves and what we have learned from the more difficult challenges in our lives. But, speaking just for myself, I have never had to pull myself up from the hard places that Carol has been in her life, and I remain in awe of her.
Aside from the powerful things that make for her story, I just felt so privileged to be in her company. Although she was incredibly busy with her case work and school work, she took the time almost weekly to make a home-made crock of soup and leave it up for grabs in the lunch room. That’s just who she is. But the thing I miss most is just hearing her reverberating laugh. And I know I’m not alone in that. Like so much about her, that laugh is still in my head and, as it echoes, it really helps to calm the other things rattling around in there and gives me perspective on what our work is about.
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