Article July 12, 2004 Issue

the 'sixth sense'

Where does our intuition come from? More important, can we trust it?

By Zina Bauman

Ever since I'd left my job as a television news photographer in Florida and had moved up to Tennessee, I'd been terribly homesick. My new job at a production company in Nashville was very different—very difficult. I was having trouble finding new friends and feeling at home. I decided Tennessee just wasn't my cup of tea. I missed everything about Florida. All I wanted was a way to go back .

I had been praying for a happier work– and life–situation, so when I was told there was an opening back at my previous workplace in Jacksonville, I called my former supervisor. He told me that one of the photographers had to take sick leave because of a back problem. They were all quite certain he wasn't returning, he said. The opening was for a temporary full–time position, which would become permanent. I accepted it. I could hardly believe it—I was going home!

It was my day off, but for some reason I had no desire to contact my current employer and resign. I felt anxious, unsettled, keyed up. I went for a long walk in a nearby park.

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