hello friends,
this evening i was working away on entering grades into my online grade book. what a funny feeling to be clicking quarter 4 each time i add an assignment and grade. this quarter 4 mark makes me feel reflective. and very grateful.
i think it's time for a right now sort of list.
today i am
wondering just how some of the pieces will fit together, but it is a good wonder
listening to music in our classroom {avett brothers, symphonies, walk off the earth, film scores}
reading some mary oliver, some edith holden, some scripture, and some instgram - so many good words
eating gingersnaps and sweet potatoes {sort of sounds like fall, but feeds the need for warm and bright on this wild march day}
drinking coffee and more coffee. always coffee
seeing clouds of every shape and size and description and color and type {some dropping all manner of precipitation} move through and over and around us today
wearing a cozy flannel shirt under a zip hoodie, my favorite jeans, my favorite glasses, my new favorite ring, and earrings i made
feeling grateful for this year of teaching both my kiddos again
correcting social studies tests and grammar
enjoying journal entries and creative sentences
wanting all four of us {our little family here} to feel better {head colds and poison ivy = yuck}
needing maybe just some deep breaths and a bit of a certain kind of space
counting down the days until summer break and a bit of a reset after this first year in our new place
thinking that i am willing to be dazzled and filled with awe over simple, incomprehensible splendor
loving ben. always ben. and my kiddos
praising the author of grace and strength and peace and understanding
knowing that there is no line between the sacred and the secular, this life i live is all blurred together and wonderful and beautiful, a song of praise to my God, as long as i have breath to count blessings and gratitude, as long as i have life i have hope to share, that sacred hope pouring over into every nook and cranny of it all, making all sacred, making all a witness.
today i am making all a witness.
be a witness, my friends. a witness to beauty. a witness to gratitude. a witness to the sacred.
go gently and be wonderful. love, e
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