Find Your Happy Place
During the summer months, it is important for me and for all teachers to find their happy place and rest there for a season. In the hustle and bustle of the academic year, we find ourselves on a constant treadmill of planning, teaching, grading and motivating ourselves and our students. While we have this moment, pause and reflect.
Pause
Take a breath. Sit down in a place that has meaning for you and is still and quiet. Do not run through what you could have done or what you need to do better, just be. That place could be your back deck, front porch, sunset on a beach, sunrise in the mountains or basking in the sun before you rise in the morning. Just let the space of that particular place cover you and become comfortable with the beauty of silence and listen. Listen to your heartbeat. Hear you shallow breaths and celebrate that you made it through another year intact, intrigued and whole.
Reflect
If you did not emerge from your school year whole or intact, take this time to listen to your body, mind, and spirit telling you what you need to do this summer to circle back and close some gaps and fill it in with love, warmth, and goodness. That will look different for everyone and should be. For me, it is becoming comfortable with leisure and embracing rest for the first time in over twenty years. I started this blog as a way of expressing myself during those times when I cannot sleep, I refuse to do school work and I want to be more than someone who went to school to staple papers.
Our journey as educators is unique as it is not just something we do, it becomes who we are. We touch the lives of so many. This summer and for any opportunity to pause and reflect, I implore you and myself to take care of home so we can take care of the babies come the first day of school.
Keep Buzzing My Friends!
