Today is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. As I sit here writing, there is so much I am grateful for, not the least of which is my loving, supportive, incredibly patient wife; my amazing children who consistently demonstrate the ability to make more mature and thoughtful choices than I did at their ages (currently …
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Gratitude #1:I’m not yet at the point where Three Things is part of my daily writing practice. I’m not even back at the point yet where the act of writing is part of my daily writing practice. In fact, there are really only two pieces of my writing practice right now: 1) feeling guilty for …
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Gratitude 1:We learned halfway through the day today that the schools in our supervisory union are closing early for the Thanksgiving holiday due to COVID and associated issues, including severe staffing shortages. After the kiddos were dismissed this afternoon, there won’t be classes again until Nov. 29 at the earliest. Today was the 58th day …
Continue reading Three Things, Day 8: Pausing, a Quick Change & Cloves
Gratitude #1:I’ve written about this song before. It carried me home today, though, so I’m writing about it again. Farewell Transmission is a song by Songs: Ohia, a recording name used by Jason Andrew Molina as both a solo artist and as part of a group. The song is from the 2003 album, Magnolia Electric …
What a busy, hard, weird week-and-a-half it’s been. To be fair, though, it’s been a busy, hard, weird month. And to be even more fair, it’s been a busy, hard, weird couple of years. Last week I got through each day and was happy to call that good enough. Even some stuff I’ve been looking …
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