handwritten on April 8, 2020
3.5 miles: running
I left my gate leading up the stairs to dwell and I heard your tune humming through the breeze. I followed my ears with the notes floating on the breeze waiting to hear your song again. And there you were, just a tiny bird with a coat modest and true-hoping that when I left my gate I might be able to hear your tune. You floated with me as I stepped over the cracks and crossed to rid myself of people. And the strangest thing happened today that while you floated away saving your hello for another day, I could not get rid of your song. Your song road me up the hills and down, past street corners and cornered worries. The notes continued to stay as I looked up at the...
handwritten on April 6, 2020
3.5 miles running
I think for most who travel through this life, we have moments of lullabies. And life lullabies are moments that are meant to inspire and soothe, heal and restore, pacify and create pure love. I am guilty before of thinking of this recent life lull as more of a nightmare than a lullaby, but I think when we step back, we can turn it into a song that rocks softer, that embraces quiet time and removes hate, that cradles our loved ones close and allows for reflection on all that we have been given, the places we have gone and the beautiful people we have met. For my husband and myself, I would say it's probably the first lullaby we have ever had and there is great irony in...
handwritten on April 4, 2020
I've lived without a T.V. now basically since I left my parents house for college.
I'm not a huge movie person (although count me in if there is a Hallmark movie.)
Basically any movie with an inspirational message that I have watched in the past I have no problem watching again. Well today I woke up rather early and somehow came across a T.V. series "High School Musical the Series." And truly, I really didn't love the actual High School Musical movie when I was a youngster, but for whatever reason, I literally watched 10 episodes of this series in one sitting.
And for the first time in my life (quite literally) I spent a lot of my day streaming this show and oddly-I didn't allow myself to...
handwritten on April 3, 2020
30 minutes of lifting: I go through periods of time I think where I feel like life is beyond my control and therefore to cope, I usually clean. In fact, my colleagues know that my classroom is never the cleanest so when they saw my apartment this week they both looked at me and said, "Your husband must be the neat one." And he responded, "Nope. not me."
Tonight it was about 1:00 in the morning and because I had fallen asleep earlier, I cleaned quite literally everything. I cleaned our fridge, I cleaned and sorted our pantry. Today I plan on cleaning the floors and vacuuming and dusting and perhaps going over the floors with a mop and some cleaning liquid.
Sometimes when the world is chaos...
handwritten on April 2, 2020
3.5 miles: As most teacher know- days can sometimes be beautiful or rocky within a classroom. Add in virtual technology and trying to teach and you get mostly rocky days.
And if we aren't careful, sometimes those rocky days make us feel a bit grumpy. Well Thursday was a grumpier day for me. We had some technology kinks, we had some other kinks and just the all around kink of realizing you aren't actually doing your job to its full potential. Because once again, the end of the year in an elementary classroom is a time to enjoy each other's company, to create, to live, to laugh, to love and to close a chapter successfully so students are able to move into their new grade and their new...
