#22
Yesterday's Nice Thing: Running in the frosty morning, beneath a lunar eclipse, listening to the onset of the Dawn Chorus
I am a wee bit late for the appointment with my angel this morning. An hour to be exact. So i'm gonna take half an hour for the run to do this because if I don't, I will be something was missing.
I did loads yesterday, even a new drawing of a robin. It was the wrong paper, but it is ok. The robin was adorable and I'll try to upload it later. I chose robin because I had forgotten Anthony's book at Ma's house, so I'll get it today along with the books i was reading there.
Oisin is at Heidi's to the piano practice as to be at Ma's house, which is just as well.
It is very cold today, the coldest it has been this winter. We haven't been used to it since it has been seven degrees and more most of the time. We are having real frosts and running yesterday was treacherous on the frosty bits. But it was nothing like running in the snow.
School is really good. We have been doing Joan of Arc and I've been working with the students to get them to get their punctuation up to scratch. I do these sentences everyday and grammar is now a part of the Main Lesson. This will continue till the end of the term I think. It has served them really well.
We have let maths take a very small breather - we still do it everyday, but less of it.
Today we make lentil stew in the outdoors. The first order of duty will be to make a good fire, then to get the kettle going and then the lentil stew sorted. So people will be chopping and gather wood, etc.
High in the skies - there was this gorgeous sunrise yesterday, probably because of the lunar eclipse. Just a fiery red and something very odd happened to me yesterday, like a glitch in the matrix, at the same time Ghin said, I have a headache - I was driving along the road to school and stopped at a junction to wait for cars. I admit was distracted by the sunrise - then suddenly, as I continued driving and stopped at another junction, I thought to myself, surely I have done this before? At the same time Ghin said, I have a headache. Not a dejavu double take, but a didn't I just do that? It makes me think about what perception is really all about.
So, yesterday, in addition to writing and running. I came home, cooked dinner, did the laundry, or at least tried to do it, had dinner did school prep, did my drawing and then collapsed in bed remembering that I had not looked at my book binding, cos I had just clean forgotten. It was very annoying, but I just thought, I can do that on Wednesday cos I have bought too much of bread AGAIN, this week. I think I need to read my schedule everyday to remind myself about what I have promised.
I watched Silent Witness yesterday. It brought to life the horror of drugs in communities in a way in which I never had realised. How they totally and utterly destroy lives. There was some polemical hectoring and exposition, but it was alright, it is such a terrible thing how people have nothing left in their lives but drugs and in some cases their entire environment is swimming around in it. I have protected Oisin and Ghin so carefully, and I realise now, literally I have been protecting them. Drugs are now so endemic all over that it is too easy to suddenly fall into it and have it destroy someone's life.
Tomorrow I go and see Gabriel. I am going to really sort the parents and field trips and letters today after school.
Well, that's me for today - a quick blast. It also doesn't feel great when it's only a short blast.
But, that's life. Gotta go for my run, I'm already late.
I am a wee bit late for the appointment with my angel this morning. An hour to be exact. So i'm gonna take half an hour for the run to do this because if I don't, I will be something was missing.
I did loads yesterday, even a new drawing of a robin. It was the wrong paper, but it is ok. The robin was adorable and I'll try to upload it later. I chose robin because I had forgotten Anthony's book at Ma's house, so I'll get it today along with the books i was reading there.
Oisin is at Heidi's to the piano practice as to be at Ma's house, which is just as well.
It is very cold today, the coldest it has been this winter. We haven't been used to it since it has been seven degrees and more most of the time. We are having real frosts and running yesterday was treacherous on the frosty bits. But it was nothing like running in the snow.
School is really good. We have been doing Joan of Arc and I've been working with the students to get them to get their punctuation up to scratch. I do these sentences everyday and grammar is now a part of the Main Lesson. This will continue till the end of the term I think. It has served them really well.
We have let maths take a very small breather - we still do it everyday, but less of it.
Today we make lentil stew in the outdoors. The first order of duty will be to make a good fire, then to get the kettle going and then the lentil stew sorted. So people will be chopping and gather wood, etc.
High in the skies - there was this gorgeous sunrise yesterday, probably because of the lunar eclipse. Just a fiery red and something very odd happened to me yesterday, like a glitch in the matrix, at the same time Ghin said, I have a headache - I was driving along the road to school and stopped at a junction to wait for cars. I admit was distracted by the sunrise - then suddenly, as I continued driving and stopped at another junction, I thought to myself, surely I have done this before? At the same time Ghin said, I have a headache. Not a dejavu double take, but a didn't I just do that? It makes me think about what perception is really all about.
So, yesterday, in addition to writing and running. I came home, cooked dinner, did the laundry, or at least tried to do it, had dinner did school prep, did my drawing and then collapsed in bed remembering that I had not looked at my book binding, cos I had just clean forgotten. It was very annoying, but I just thought, I can do that on Wednesday cos I have bought too much of bread AGAIN, this week. I think I need to read my schedule everyday to remind myself about what I have promised.
I watched Silent Witness yesterday. It brought to life the horror of drugs in communities in a way in which I never had realised. How they totally and utterly destroy lives. There was some polemical hectoring and exposition, but it was alright, it is such a terrible thing how people have nothing left in their lives but drugs and in some cases their entire environment is swimming around in it. I have protected Oisin and Ghin so carefully, and I realise now, literally I have been protecting them. Drugs are now so endemic all over that it is too easy to suddenly fall into it and have it destroy someone's life.
Tomorrow I go and see Gabriel. I am going to really sort the parents and field trips and letters today after school.
Well, that's me for today - a quick blast. It also doesn't feel great when it's only a short blast.
But, that's life. Gotta go for my run, I'm already late.
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