space-givers
first blog entry of september and my extrovert & multitasking muscles are tired. i seem to have settled (for the first time in my life!) into an almost subterraneous peace sharable only with animals and young babies--who unknowingly serve as my litmus test of calm. while the pace is picking up (315+ students per week) i plan to keep honing my observation skills.
yesterday, after falling asleep in my car, i sat on a bench at school for hours. relishing the quiet, i noted the fir trees playing host to campus birds. will they be scared away come wednesday? will i? can i be present and attend to volumes of people in meaningful ways?
desiring to be a person who gives space (as opposed to just taking up space), today i worked in the yard for one of the last real times, scaring up flying grasshoppers and pre-hibernating lady bugs. a deer and i shared the yard, both of us feeling like a snack of blackberries. he didn't run away from me, so the peace must still be here. here's to carrying it with me into the happy mayhem.
yesterday, after falling asleep in my car, i sat on a bench at school for hours. relishing the quiet, i noted the fir trees playing host to campus birds. will they be scared away come wednesday? will i? can i be present and attend to volumes of people in meaningful ways?
desiring to be a person who gives space (as opposed to just taking up space), today i worked in the yard for one of the last real times, scaring up flying grasshoppers and pre-hibernating lady bugs. a deer and i shared the yard, both of us feeling like a snack of blackberries. he didn't run away from me, so the peace must still be here. here's to carrying it with me into the happy mayhem.
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