Summer and space

I have requested space for myself this summer. I realized after an intense year of teaching, I need a bit of a brain-space break. I say intense year because I love the job and intense because of the variety of characters that I teach and the fact that they are all such individual and interesting people, and some are just simply intense young people! These are Grade 4 students...9 and 10 year olds.

So I've requested a couple of weeks of just being with myself and resting and doing whatever I feel inclined to do. This includes playing the violin, bike riding, going to the library, reading newspapers and my current book, going for walks, talking with God, visiting my family when I choose and relaxing in the evening with my main man, George.

For me, taking this time is harder than it appears. For one, I have 4 grandchildren whom I love! Sometimes my sense of doing things for others clicks in and I begin to feel obliged to DO. Then I am reminded to lean back and take this time. This is why I have time to write this blog!

I was just reading my current book, "A Circle of Quiet" by Madeleine L'Engle. She wrote about loving becoming 50. "To be half a century plus is wonderfully exciting, because I haven't lost any of my past, and am free to stand on the rock of all the the past has taught me as I look towards the future."

Here's to the future! It's early afternoon and I think I might go out for a bike ride and pick up some milk and mail a letter!!
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