I'm Only the Trombone Player

Never Look Back?

Authors Note ▼

For the January 2021 30-Day Blogging Challenge "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS" 

PROMPT – 1/2/2021 – January 2nd, 2020 is finally in the rear view mirror... what’s ahead for you in 2021?

Having already discussed what amounts to being the Biggest Upcoming Event in 2021, my pending retirement, and all the eager trepidation surrounding it. I really don't want to belabor it further.

There is a unique thing connected to my work as a music teacher, that I will touch on.

While one year ended, 2020 to be precise, that in reality marked the mid-point in my own timekeeping ritual. School round these parts ends in June. That brings finals, graduations, fair-wells, and new beginnings.

My "year" has for the last twenty or so years been wrapped around the July to June axis of the school year. So in many ways, my year hasn't changed yet.

Pointing back up to that opening paragraph, get back to me next September, when the "new reality" sets in!