Fellow Teachers!
It's hard to believe that we're
already one week into school. I have waited for this moment - day 1,
week 1 - for months now (maybe years), and as I look back on it now, I
can't believe how quickly (and also how slowly) it went.
And it's incredible how many things I felt
simultaneously while it was happening (yes, sometimes it felt like it
was just happening to me, in the passive tense, haha) - terror, anxiety,
stress, connectedness, distance, disbelief, immense overwhelm, but most
of all, a tingling anticipation of the days to come.
And of course, this is just the beginning of the
beginning, but I wanted to take a moment to step back and be grateful
for the joy and challenges ahead.
I'll leave you with two quotes that I absolutely love, especially for this moment in time:
We
should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage
of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the
influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our
time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call
doing our duty. We loiter in winter while it is already spring.
| Henry David Thoreau |
Perhaps the secret of living well is not in having all the answers, but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.
| Rachel Naomi Remen |
Here's to good company!
Ms. Sri
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