handwritten on June 29, 2020
In preparing for a series of upcoming lessons, I came across this beautiful poem. I have simply fallen in love, and I do hope you can see why.
Pigeon and sparrow,
Perched together
On that
Telephone line,
Do you ever
Talk to
Each other,
I wonder?
Or are you
Just strangers,
Like two people
Sitting
On a bus?
- Yoshiko Uchida
There were two weddings this past weekend, and I found myself referencing this poem watching the love unfold in both cases. Older love, younger love, long relationships, shorter relationships. Regardless, all points of love start with a meeting. And that meeting is caused sometimes by a bit of whimsy but also wonder. For if you don't wonder, can...
handwritten on June 25, 2020
It's always so interesting how we think to ourselves often or perhaps look outside at the grass that has just been washed by the rain and we say over and over again, "I just don't know about.."
I just don't know about this rain or
I just don't know about this weather
I just don't know about the clouds in the sky or that
little chocolate chip we stepped on as we traveled across the floor
or that half finished book or that
meeting we had earlier in the day or
the decision we made to try that new thing
I just don't know. We do though. I think we do know
perhaps that phrase is just yet another way for us to be unsure without being too sure
A little safety net that slips beneath our feet like...
handwritten on June 17, 2020
Sometimes..every so often
we have the opportunity to reflect on what has been
the places we have gone
the moments of laughter and love
and we realize we wouldn't be who we are
without that one shining source of inspiration and light
the one that held your hand through kindergarten
that helped you shut your locker with a bright orange cast
that shares the same values and sentiments
and unlike others
you've never had to walk a single life event
alone
and that's what it is like to be a twin
twice the memories
twice the blessings
twice the joys but also heartaches
twice the miracles
happy birthday
to my better half
handwritten on June 5, 2020
What happened at the end of this school is just heartbreaking for just about everyone. It's not the ending we would have hoped for, it's not what anyone wanted and for some-and ending was never even really an option. When the world stopped...so did school. I count my lucky stars I was able to continue this journey with my beautiful students until the end. I am thankful that my school had the resources to pass out computers, to set up a virtual instruction platform online and to be proactive even though our heads were spinning when we received the news we would not be going back. I will absolutely never forget this year for many reasons. It was my fifth year of teaching. It was my largest...
handwritten on May 3, 2020
I've decided that during this time, it is best to not force myself to write but only write when something comes to mind. Because I think the last thing that is needed during this very strange period in time is forcing yourself to have whimsy when in reality-sometimes there just isn't whimsy. And sometimes the days pass by and there truly isn't much clarity either. And so ironically in this seeing 20/20 of 2020, I've actually never felt more internally confused about my emotions, my vocation and so forth. I feel like the year 20/20 may perhaps be the most unclear year to date. But as we all know-life is full of curve balls and so little life-guides here and there are what make life that much...
