, again
Starting
Ending
Packing up lives
Goodbyes
Tearing
Embracing
Promises to keep
Sleep
, again
Starting
Ending
Packing up lives
Goodbyes
Tearing
Embracing
Promises to keep
Sleep
Wordle 368 4/6
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⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
We used to call these superman’s. It started with the kids then they asked me to do it with their teddy bears.
Reverse angles
Sonder: to realize that everybody on Earth is living a life as complicated, intense, and vibrantly unique as your own. It’s that feeling you get when you realize that you’re not IN traffic—you ARE traffic.
https://jessicahagy.substack.com/p/10-iceberg-situations
If your role requires you to be emotionally available and empathetic, then your cup needs to be filled and not completely broken. If student academic achievement is your focus, you can’t afford to enter the classroom in a depleted state for days on end. If you still want to be in the classroom in five years time, then you will need a safe workplace. Perhaps it’s time for us to start a conversation about teaching as an industry where employee wellbeing needs to be proactively managed, rather than triaged.Source: On compassion fatigue
As a parent, you need to let go. You need to let your child blossom. You need to think of your child like they’re a plant that you want to foster and grow in its most natural form and not hinder in any way. You have to let your child go in whatever direction he or she wants. When the child reveals a proclivity towards something, encourage them to go in that direction. Because that proclivity reveals something extremely powerful from within—it reveals what I call a primal inclination. Do not get in the way of their primal inclinations in any way, shape, or form. That’s the most important thing you can do.
Do Not Get In The Way Of Their Primal Inclinations – Daily Dad g
Sometimes, the things you need are not the things you do.
Funny that.
Looking down from the golden eagle and looking up to it.
PSA - At least for Apple One, Family sharing is only allowed if your Apple Store is configured to same country.
Yeah, this is our issue that I just have to accept since Lyra’s account is in China and mine is in the UK. It’s not practical for us to share the same country.
Selfies
I know I’m not 100% because I slept through to my alarm, which I rarely do.
It’s something that I think I could be worse but making sure my sleep, diet and exercise are good helps.
流沙包 is one of those things we don’t translate because “steamed egg custard buns” isn’t as catchy. So delicious though.
Another poem
1 mile run *
100 skips
80 sit ups
60 KB swings at 55lb
40 pull ups
24ish minutes
*Long way round to get to the gym because the guard locked the closest door.
a solid litmus test for low value work. If you could do it hungover, it’s probably low value.
Kind of moot for me since the idea of doing my job hungover is terrifying!
Blueberry field in the rain
I realised that twice last week that I talked to people about some of the things that are constantly spinning in my head. Living in China and being a Dad. Like, I know I should do it more but…
Take care. Ducks on the road.
I don’t think I’ve ever rewatched something as fast as I’m rewatching the first season of the Letterkenny spin off Shoresy.
It’s like the Soo, so effing good.
I still remember the first time I thought I was deathly sick one morning before realising it was just the red dragon fruit I’d eaten the day before! 🐉 🍎
Want to live forever?
Be kind.
Make the world shine!
Even just a little
To create a glow
That doesn’t easily fade.
And let us remember
Those that did.
Today is 4 years since a colleague died. And I’ve had these thoughts running through my head the last couple of weeks. About my own legacy. How easily it can all end. About my own children.
Always feel like getting up silly early is a double edged sword. Youngest “bed danced” me awake at 4ish and haven’t gone back to sleep. It’s been nice having some quiet time but it’s going to come back around…
How do you know if you genuinely need rest, or you’re just using that to avoid having to go work out? He said you should go to the effort of going to the gym, because then you’ve already overcome the lazy part, and now you’re making more of an unaffected choice.