Month: September 2024
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Monday Doneday
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Lessons from Gram: Spreading Kindness and Joy
I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t think of my grandmother, Rosemary. She was just a force of loving-kindness. I can only hope to leave half the mark on the world that she did in her 66 years. So many of the qualities I like about myself come from her. And she…
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A morning reminder
I am a being of loving kindness We are all beings of loving kindness We just need help finding the light At my best I am a helper That is why I teach
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Phoenix is Burning
I am getting over a lifelong case of imposter syndrome. I am trying out my new Tesla pen. Nikola, that is. I felt like I had to prove to everyone I was who I was. Sometimes you have to burn the phoenix to breathe the ashes and build it again. But that’s just wishful thinkin’…
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I Get It Now
I get it now. I get it now. I used to have such a difficult time managing my time. Executive dysfunction you might call it. And I was hellbent against scheduling my free time. That’s free time. Not part of somebody’s schedule. But I whiled it away. Time drifted and strolled while I puttered and…
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Unlocking the Alchemy of Generosity in Education
My heart is bursting. Just bursting. I wrote a letter to all the beautiful souls who made this gift possible: I am touched beyond words by all of your donations. I’m humbled that you would reach into your pockets to support our outstanding students. As you know, funding in public schools is tight and even…
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Maybe it’s the moon. I don’t know.
Woke up with all of the physical manifestations of anxiety but none of the mental baggage. And I realize my body was tense from a weird dream that I kept waking up from and falling back asleep into and it was just constant chaos and anxiety and I’m feeling it in my bones. But I’m…
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Opportunity in Change
Sometimes a huge and terrifying change can be an opportunity. My knee-jerk response to a change is to bristle, panic (even that invisible internal panic that nobody sees, but flutters across my chest like a rabid butterfly), and bemoan my fate. But so many times an unwelcome change has shown up at my threshold; it…
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Monday Doneday
I made this over the summer… right around the time when the presidential race started to change…
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Unmasking the Twin
My name means Twin. Thomas comes from Didymus, which means Twin. I’m not sure what that means in the grand scheme of things. I’m my own twin? I hold the potentiality of a twin? In the Christian tradition, Thomas was an apostle. Some Gnostic readings refer to him as Jesus’s twin. Canon maligns him as…