Must be calm outside
Inside, pressure increasing
Pressure increasing
Today’s exercise goal, as it is everyday, to turn up.
All energy gone
Burnt out by angry moments
Leaving nothing left
Apparently I’m at the stage where I’m buying books that I won’t read anytime soon soon…
For weekends remove gym.
doggy
My third job, after family and work, continues.
That of trying to find a new job. It’s ups and downs. I want to do it properly, but finding the time to that is hard after the other two. It’s also stressful for a few different reasons. One of which is it means our family will be moving, definitely to a new city but potentially a new country too. The other is that I just struggle with the whole process. Of crafting my cv and cover letter appropriately and being happy with it. Of, already worrying about interviews when that’s not even on the horizon. I just find it a lot.
I teach because I enjoy teaching and this is not! I’m good at the teaching part and find it difficult selling myself, highlighting my good attributes.
I know a few people here doing a Weekly Post, either music or a personal recount or ‘this is what I found interesting this week’. I’m going to try that this week, I think. How is TBD…
Quick lesson in the importance of looking behind you when reversing.
“Did You Like School? I Didn’t” (David Labaree)
I’m bringing this up because people like me – educators and educational researchers – need to remind themselves that school is not an unalloyed good.
the dark is quiet
a different kind of peace
as a car drifts by
With thanks to Jill Tomlinson
10 Things I Remind Myself before I Draw| A Manifesto by Christoph Niemann
Love this. Via Kottke
Edit: Oh wow. it’s a whole series!
New Slow Horses on Apple TV+ in 3(ish) weeks! Exciting.
I’m thinking about selling my theremin. Haven’t touched it in years.
Via Popbitch – Scurrilous gossip. Scandalous stories. Otters., the only newsletter I still, for some reason, read via email and not via Kill the Newsletter and NewNewsWire.
My routines, save me
Force me to move, to take a step
Stop me standing still
It’s raining worry
Drowning in anxiety
Sea levels rising
Yumo’s art: “rainbow”
10 Classic Klaxons… Things to avoid doing or saying – teacherhead
This gave me some things to think about when i’m teaching.
Happy that Bjork - Joga from the Jools Holland Show is on there. SO good.
The 100 greatest BBC music performances – ranked! | Music | The Guardian
Author William Martin on the wonders of ordinary life:
“Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.”
Source: The Parent’s Tao Te Ching
3-2-1: How to deal with a changing world and the wonders of ordinary life - James Clear
Put it all away
Pick up a thousand new things
Put it all away