Joy, Small and Holy

Let me tell you a story about something small and refreshing in this world.

Last week I was visiting my sister and brother-in-law in Texas, and I was inspired at Chipotle.  We had the best time. (I mean, in general on that trip...outside of Chipotle too.)  On the Chipotle bag, there are now Cultivating Thoughts.  It's some good, thought provoking ideas getting magnified in concise and interesting ways. 

My Twin

So. Wow.  This week I discovered a blog called 'Love, Teach'.  I'm inspired.  There is someone out there who is creepy similar to me in all things teacher. 

Reasons why....

Quiet, Slow, and Thrilling

Today is a day for big thoughts.

Last year my sister met and began to love Levi, and today I finally board a plane to see them.  We've been waiting for this.  And guess what?  Sometimes life really is like a movie.  Call me sentimental, but I say that 'slow motion happy' is very real.  Tonight the comfort of my homey childhood will fill me up, just standing there with Levi and Jenna for two seconds at the airport.  And tomorrow morning I'll be having coffee with my sister in Texas.  This is quietly thrilling. 

Sometimes life is big in the minutes you wait through too.  Each minute this week is 'stolid, all things a century' to me because I'm waiting for news of a friend and her baby.  

New Page

I am doing that thing again where I stop and start, stop and start again with writing. (New page, new thoughts.) I think you call this writer's block.  Or 'scattered teacher with a complex that writing isn't as valuable as everything else you love'. 

Of course that's not true.  And that's what I must first declare in order to writ anything else past this one singular sentence.  A pause, a breath, an anchored thought is very worth the time.  What follows this of course is further stillness in chaotic, frenetic places. 

You level out and become more yourself and live in the world more freely when you give voice and credit to the thing you really love.   When you inhabit what you are passionate about, it stills things that needed to be stilled and enhances the rest of the story you're supposed to live.