day 320: particles
orange butterfliespurple fish
blue soccer balls
brown pencils
All colored for a math activity with my students tomorrow. I colored while I sat in my living room visiting with a good friend about taking teaching moments with my family. We talked about the no-family-routines problem in the summers. We lamented our own personal failures, but laughed at our weaknesses. It felt good. To be real and honest.
Sheets of honesty raining down as I don't have the energy, or inclination, to hold anything back. It makes me wonder about my life when I am not so spread around. When I don't leave part of myself in my car, part in the classroom, part on my pillow. I have become so used to being all over the place. I leave my little trace. My particles.
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I'll bet that felt great. A little cathartic. A little therapeutic.
And you've got great particles. It's nice to share.
Don't you think we all feel that way sometimes :)
Have a blessed day today.
I personally don't like to be that busy. I did it so many years raising three children. It is nice to read that you are having a little breathing room right now.
Just a few more weeks until a little more breathing room. But then it starts up again!
Sounds like you're being creative in your coloring!
I feel that way sometimes too--only the other way around--
spread too thin over too many areas in life.
I enjoy the times when I have all of me in one place.
I love your last line. My particles. Beautiful.
I wonder about all the places we have particles..Where have I left pieces of myself?
That sort of honesty is a gift we give ourselves, I think. Beauteous.
a good visit with a real friend is a wonderfully therapeutic thing....we all need a little light understanding mixed with humour and friendship....makes the world of difference....
I think we all feel pretty thinly spread sometimes....it changes though through time as the kids grow, and if your not working as myself.
Life can be pretty peaceful
But I think I have a few loose particles flying around somewhere --at least that is what people tell me, that I am not all there. (tee,hee)
Oh, my gosh. I love you.
Living in truth is so much easier than the alternative. It leaves me feeling complete.
You, my friend, are brilliant.
Yes, I feel that way today. And will all week.
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