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Reflections and ruminations from a modern day Alice - Life is Wonderland  Welcome to the place were I chronicle my own falls down dark holes and adventures chasing white rabbits! Come on In, Take a Bite, You Never Know What You May Find... "Curiouser and curiouser." Alice in Wonderland    |
| Soundtrack of my Life Feb 25th, Entry 21 Horses, Keith Urban https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmotRDgEjqg There's a lot about this song that I love, aside from the literal references to horses. It speaks to me about finally taking a breathe for myself, for opening up to what I need for self-care. As a mother and a wife, that isn't always easy to do. It has taken me a while to find what brings me peace. Two years ago I bought a 12 year old gelding for my daughter but our painted gentleman has given me more than I expected. The hours I spend at the barn with my daughter are priceless. It is where we talk about things, listen to tunes and relax together. It is where we work side by side. It is where we have faced scary moments and overcome obstacles. It is where we have learned things we didn't know were possible. For me though, there isn't anything that works as a better balm on my soul then walking into the barn at the end of the day. There is a great comfort in the smell of the leather and the sound of munching horses. There is no greater joy then turning the horses out and watching them run under the blue skies. Roo snorts and holds his tail high, breaks into a canter along the rails. We see them so often eating or standing about, it is amazing when they take off, running and playing. It takes my breathe away, all that power and beauty erupting like that. It reminds me that life if short. We should always be celebrating. We can always go back to eating and working, but first its nice to really just run. |
| "Blogging Circle of Friends " DAY 3022 February 25, 2021 “Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.”― Jodi Picoult, This has been a trying year, looking back upon 2020, who's your hero? Why? If there was anything 202 showed us it was that most heroes are ordinary people just doing the best job they can in the service of others. The unsung heroes were all the nurses that ended long shifts with bruises on their faces from the PPE and the doctors that spent the final minutes face-timing the loved ones of a dying patient so they could get to say their goodbyes. Heartbreaking images filled our feeds of healthcare workers visiting their own children through windows and glass doors or collapsed in corners of empty hallways, overwhelmed by their private burdens in dealing with a nation in crises. My daughter has been struggling with the isolation of remote learning. Like so many children, school was her source for interaction with other children her age. It is hard for her to connect with the lessons and material via virtual classes and self-guided remote learning. I listen to her zoom meetings and hear those same notes of isolation and longing in the voices of the other kids too. It is a blessing that she got the teacher she got for 5th grade this year. Her teacher is an amazing person, not just as an educator but as a caring and compassionate mentor. Very early on, she recognized the needs of her young students and has tried her best to give them the sense of community and classroom they all very much need. She reserves the last few minutes of every daily meeting to ask them to talk about their day, about their plans and what they have going on. She's asked them to share their workspace with each other via zoom, to introduce their pets and share their funny stories. If you close your eyes and listen, it sounds very much like a normal classroom anywhere in the world with excited voices all trying to talk at once. She shared her struggles with them, like recently losing heat and having to conduct class from a friend's house and managing it all with grace, and asked them to share their struggles and how they overcame their issues. They have taken on the challenges together through this year. I am immensely grateful to my daughter's teacher. She has put the health and well-being of her students first and foremost. In delivering the lessons, she has given them all so much more. She has tried to give them back some normalcy, which they have so desperately needed. She, and all the educators like her, are my heroes this past year. "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise" Day 2396 February 25, 2021 Prompt:"A poet dips words into springtime to season her poems with beauty." Tom Guillemets Use this quote in your Blog entry today. This prompt is a bit tough for me. I'm not a poet and most of what I write lately seems to be seasoned more with darkness and strife. I can appreciate beauty though, and as Feb has provided us a last blast of arctic chill and snow, I long for Springtime in a way I haven't in some time. I get that Spring is a season filled with blooms and sunshine. It seeds hope after the starkness of Winter. I can see how there is inspiration in all of that rebirth. While I don't necessarily see the quote as literal, I think some writers muses are born from the idea of an eternal Spring. |
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