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“This room looks like someone set out to decorate purgatory and got bored.”

“…we are kissing and I feel it again, that sense of time folding over on itself, of a thousand lifetimes spent together. If it is our bodies that should one day be washed up on shore then I hope they will do so together.”

“…here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die.”

So much great whale symbolism 🐳💗

What I miss most is not any of the things I expected. It’s having someone to talk to about our children. The insights with which they blow my mind and the ways they change frequently and without mercy. I need her to help me process and deliberate and delight in …someone who understands not just the talent or cleverness of our children, but the wisdom the immensity of feeling they hold within.

She will see one day. Loving a place is the same as having a child. They are both too much an act of hope, of defiance. And those are a fool’s weapons.

Peace is a choice we make in each movement and all we can do as educators is to plant seeds of awareness and peace. We don’t know if they will ever bloom. But once you begin practicing mindfulness you will see how it begins to infuse your day.

Pg 125 “I wonder if maybe all you do is meet people and lose them and your smile just fades the further you go because you have to carry the space they leave.”

Pg18 when I asked my 👥 4th grade teacher how long a paper had to be she said “like a skirt long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to keep it interesting”.