So much is going on right now that leaves me unsettled.  I have this sense that something large is going to happen soon...  Something I don't want to happen... something that will cause this entire thing to blow up in my face.  I don't exactly know what or when but i'm left feeling this impending doom.  Things feel so fractured right now and i just desperately want things to be patched back together...

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

2014 Bucket List

Image
Bucket List Traveling 1.      TRAVEL TRAVEL TRAVEL....See various parts of the world- more specifically Denmark, England, Scotland, Norway, Sweeden, Finland, Scotland, Austria, Switzerland, New Zealand, France (again) and Spain (again), Australia, Fiji, St. Lucia, Bora Bora, Prince Edward Island in Canada, Morroco, Budapest 2.      United States travel includes: New York, Boston, Disneyworld in Florida, Miami, Philadelphia, Chicago, Las Vegas (again), Los Angeles, Washington DC ect.   3.      I would love to travel up north to see the fall leaves change color.   4.      New York during Christmas time 5.      Visit a ski resort during snow season 6.      Visit a place with cherry trees in full bloom 7.      Take a road trip across the United States.   Driving and stopping at random places.   8.  Tak...
Read more

What I learned from my 6th year of teaching

Every year the LA department reflects on what they've learned from teaching.  Here are some past posts 5th year , 2nd year , 1st year   What I learned from my 6th year of teaching: 1.  I distinctly remember how I felt at the beginning of this school year.  I was really depressed.  I was back to where I met Brittany, and it was painful.  I saw her in all the places that we shared, and all of those places held memories of her.  I had to stop putting my room together to cry my eyes out, and then continue putting posters on my wall.  I didn't think I had anything to give to these students.  I was emotionally out of the game.  But somewhere along the line I realized that here were kids who were counting on me and who could bring me joy if I let them.  I realized that you can't stop loving people because you have lost someone.  The only good, true thing in life is love.  I'm thankful that I pushed through my sa...
Read more

The Seventh Man

For some reason this passage really struck me deeply. This is a passage in a TAKS book that I had my 8th grade kiddos read. But to me it is so much more than that. I hope you enjoy. From The Seventh Man By Haruki Murakami “A huge wave nearly swept me away,” said the seventh man, almost whispering. “It happened one September afternoon when I was 10 years old.” The man was the last one to tell his story that night. The hands of the clock had moved past ten. The small group that huddled in a circle could hear the wind tearing through the darkness outside, heading west. IT shook the trees, set the windows to rattling, and moved past the house with one final whistle. “It was the biggest wave I had even seen in my life,” he said. “A strange wave. An absolute giant.” He paused. “It just barely missed me, but in my place it swallowed everything that mattered most to me and swept it off to another world. I took years to find it again and to recover from the experience-precious years t...
Read more