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  • No Self

    “I tell myself there is

    no self- I am just

    a place where the

    universe happens to be happening

    telling itself through me.”

    – John Brehm

    Via

    → 10:57 PM, Jun 6
  • There are mornings when I wake and forget, for a moment, everything I’m supposed to carry.

    Link to a poem titled, “In the morning, before anything bad happens”

    Poems for Your Life, v.06 - by T. De Los Reyes

    → 8:22 PM, May 30
  • We’re working every dread day that is given us
    Feeling like the person people meet
    Really isn’t us
    Like we’re going to buckle underneath the trouble
    Like any minute now
    The struggle’s going to finish us
    Kae Tempest - People’s Faces

    → 7:03 AM, Mar 14
  • life piles up
    towers over us
    leering, judging
    we work
    with heart
    giving up pieces
    to the pile
    till it, we, fall
    then
    life piles up

    → 12:52 PM, May 14
  • Today
    what did you
    feel?
    think?
    find?
    lose?
    remember?

    → 9:30 PM, May 11
  • maybe today
    walk away
    from anything
    without a heart

    It’s easy to be busy. I’m always busy. There’s always something else I could be doing. Teaching is great for that. You’re never really done. And so, this week I’ve been trying to not always be the wrong kind of busy. The kind that involves staring at a screen. To be the other kind of busy, the one that involves spending more time with students and colleagues. More heart.

    → 9:49 PM, May 9
  • nothing happens next
    this is it! and this is it !
    and this is it too!

    We read A Stone For Sascha by Aaron Becker in class yesterday and talked about time and how things change. Again, I tried to step back and give the kids time to speak. I still find that hard, feeling the need to fill the spaces. A beautiful, wordless book all told. His Journey trilogy is still some of my favourite picture books.

    These words are from the comic of two monks that I have had rattling around inside my head for the longest time. And talking about time has brought it back, again.

    Music is Rosie Thomas - These Friends of Mine

    → 9:45 PM, May 8
  • we hear, but
    don’t, can’t absorb
    you’re ready
    when you’re ready

    Stupid challenge. Been thinking a lot about realising things. Then realising these are things you’ve read, been told, were first thought long ago. But it didn’t matter. You’re ready, when you’re ready.

    → 9:39 PM, May 7
  • a few
    lines each day
    condensing thoughts
    packaging them
    releasing them
    letting go

    We talked as a family of doing a challenge. The kids said they would do a lap around our compound but that’s changed to just going outside after school. Lyra’s is to read everyday. I’m going to write a poem.

    → 7:58 PM, May 6
  • Breaking routine loops
    Stepping outside well worn habits
    Finding something new!

    → 6:46 AM, Apr 4
  • a term time shadow
    of myself, and my glory
    a choice I have made

    I feel like a different person in the holidays. Like work takes so much of me that I am a shadow of myself during term time.

    → 11:49 AM, Feb 13
  • a term time shadow
    of myself, and my glory
    a choice I have made

    → 9:35 AM, Feb 12
  • I found my breath, in
    Life’s busy repetitions,
    Hiding in plain sight

    → 9:27 PM, Feb 6
  • Waiting till they sleep
    Future points of happiness
    A wedding, old friends

    → 1:14 PM, Jan 29
  • Haiku #1

    Not ordinary
    But extraordinary
    What are we doing?

    inspired by

    → 9:52 PM, Jan 23
  • I undo my shoe laces.

    I have a single resolution this year. Just that one. I will endeavour to complete this task regardless. I won’t avoid it when I’m tired or anxious. When I’m stressed or angry. I will always do it. I can’t not, really. It takes seconds. If I can’t do this then I can’t do anything. But in my head I will remember the converse. I I can do this, I can do anything. So I do this thing so that I can do anything. I have a thousand more resolutions. I pick them up from the ground. I borrow them from friends and family who give them with love. I steal them from strangers whom I silently give thanks to. I do them until they become habit or until I let them fall because they didn’t work. They are not resolutions for the year but for-ever and ever or for just this moment. Both work. I have many, but one that matters.

    → 8:16 PM, Feb 5
  • It feels like,
    It’s not just getting
    Time
    To yourself .
    It’s having time,
    With the right
    Frame of mind.

    Which is where I fall down.

    → 7:40 PM, Jul 20
  • , again

    Starting
    Ending
    Packing up lives
    Goodbyes

    Tearing
    Embracing
    Promises to keep
    Sleep

    → 5:08 PM, Jun 23
  • TWENTY REASONS FOR BEING

    Another poem

    → 6:12 AM, Jun 16
  • swissmiss - A Poem for Someone Who is Juggling Her Life

    → 9:58 PM, Jun 15
  • each haircut
    each set of outgrown clothes
    each start of a new school year

    moves us closer to that thing we dread
    our kids growing up
    our kids leaving

    this is not to depress you
    it’s to help you enjoy now
    while it’s here
    while they are

    the past is past
    put our mistakes behind us
    stop being distracted or too busy
    rededicate ourselves — to parenting
    our most important job

    let us begin afresh, afresh, afresh
    for
    today is the very last time
    they will be this age
    again

    Paraphrased from Daily Dad

    → 7:14 PM, May 13
  • Day 10 is sponsored by Ted Lasso and the song Risk It All by Ella Henderson.

    → 6:45 AM, Sep 11
  • Day 9 Yumo was looking over the back of the sofa, like a meerkat. Tigger and his blanket held tightly. Daddy? Yes Yumo? He makes a kissing noise with his mouth. Good morning Yumo

    ❤️

    → 7:40 AM, Sep 9
  • Day 8

    → 7:00 AM, Sep 8
  • Day 7

    → 7:10 AM, Sep 7
  • Day 5

    → 10:05 AM, Sep 5
  • → 9:23 AM, Sep 4
  • Day 3 at the dining table

    → 6:58 AM, Sep 3
  • Morning fights

    → 12:39 PM, Sep 2
  • Day One of Thirty

    → 6:49 AM, Sep 1
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