10.2.25 - Prep Day

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I do love my life and I love the work which I do. I'm not saying it as affirmation. I'm saying it as a reminder. As the years pass, I have loved being a teacher more and more. I discover so many things, and the curriculum enables me to do completely awesome things with the children. 

I don't know what the future holds for me, but now is good. It's very very good. I am happy for now.

Is the work easy? Most definitely not. BUT it is truly rich. To be able to work with children and be the bridge between them and nature - it is just something which I find just... it fills my soul. There is no other way of expressing it. 

Is there a better way of working with the future than working with children? Maybe a garden, but children are like gardens... secret gardens which only show what they are as time flows... I need to buy a few things and get a few things now... so I'll go. But here is to another day.

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Just before I go, I forgot to take a photo of Oisin and Michaela yesterday. We ended up in town and had lunch in Avoca. Avoca is still there, I can't believe it. So much has changed over the years in Belfast. Oisin and I recalled the beautiful sweet shoppe there, and how I'd go to Cath Kidston and then we'd go to Argos. Dear Belfast. It has been so kind to us, while it has been through so much itself. I'm listening to Enya's Only Time and it is true - only time will tell. That's the one side of the mythic time coin. The other side is that everything is possible. Everything has already occurred.

I am so at peace with everything. 

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