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How time flies .....
It is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about.
The really idle man gets nowhere. The perpetually busy man does not get much further.
Jack Kornfield
“When we get too caught up in the busyness if the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves”
Looking at these quotes makes me think about the last few weeks I’ve had. It’s been over a month since I’ve written a journal entry. Why? No particular reason except I’ve been busy!!! Busy teaching, busy grading, busy planning, busy “doing” house, busy looking after Zane, busy reading other journals …. And the list goes on!
A couple of weeks ago, I got an IM on Facebook (which is great because I’ve found contact with friends I haven’t seen for years) from my brother saying that he had just gotten back from the hospital where my mom was. She had fallen and broken her right arm (the arm she uses) quite badly. Apparently she had tripped on her way outside and fell into a flower pot onto her shoulder and arm. She pulled the humerous out of the ball joint in the shoulder and it broke quite badly. She also cracked the ball joint. Well, they don’t have health insurance so she went into a public hospital and lay there for 2 days before they operated (it is a teaching hospital, and they work with the emergency cases first). It was incredibly frustrating being on a different continent and not being able to be there for her. She eventually had a pin put in to keep things together and has her arm immobilized for the next 2 months. They will then check to see if the ball has healed – if not, she will have to have it replaced. My dad has been amazing in that he is mom, dad, everything, and has been doing whatever it takes to keep things going at home. Luckily, they live in a community village with a bunch of people around their age who are there to visit, help and just give support. The week that this happened, I was phoning home daily to get reports and feeling so helpless. It’s hard being here, when your parents are so far away and anything can happen – nothing you can do to help them!
School is going great! I am still loving my kids. They have become VERY comfortable and tend to ‘let loose’ sometimes thinking that they’ll get away with it. “Mom” has to reign them in and lay down the law again! I am loving building up relationships with children of this age, and talking to them on a higher level than I could my second graders. Seriously, I don’t think I would ever go back to second grade!
Other than that, we are all rolling along. Shelaine has done SO well at school this first 9 weeks. She is doing one honors course – in history – and achieved a 97 for this class! All her other classes were A’s too. I am so proud of her. She has to work hard for her grades, and she has done so. She set a goal and has managed to achieve it. Brendon, on the other hand, is also doing well, with A’s and B’s but frustrates me because he gets these without trying! I know that if he put in some extra effort, he could easily obtain A’s for everything. I wonder if this is a “boy” thing!
Well, sorry again for taking so long for an entry (and I wonder why I have so few comments – I am not as regular as I should be!!). I should make this a goal – to try to put in at least one entry a week – I hate losing touch with my journal buddies.
Have a wonderful week! Happy Veteran’s Day – to all the wonderful people keeping this fantastic country safe!
It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you. ~Dick Cheney
As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and
patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is
much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is
willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his
own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has
no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the
exertions of better men than himself.
— John Stuart Mill (1868)
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Great being able to catch up with you here this morning. I had wondered where you had gotten to! Glad to know it was just being busy that kept you away and nt something more serious! Life does have a way of getting in the way of all the fun things we would like to be doing and time does pass far too quickly! Great quotes you have shared here. I am sorry to hear about your mom and have added her to my prayer list! Take care and God Bless, til next time,
Marie
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SOrry to hear about your mom... it's so hard when you live far away as you do. My own mom lives here in the U.S. but she moves around so much that I often I'm not sure where to send her letters (which usually carry a check). When she gets sick, or goes to the hospital, I don't find out about it until after the crisis is over... talk about feeling disconnected. But I do know the helpless feeling. Sometimes it's good to just pray and share your feelings with others, like you are doing here. I will pray for her mending and that her pain is shortlived. I also understand your observation that you might not want to go back to 2nd grade. I feel the same way about my former role!!! I love it where I'm at now... would hate to have to give it up next year, if something like that were to happen... don't even want to think about it! On top of all the other duties now I'm adding a Bible study one day a week, called Disciple. I've heard others say it was a great experience... so I'm beginning it tonight. Sounds like there will be lots of homework, lots of scripture reading, and responses required. But I"m looking forward to it, even during the upcoming Season, especially during the upcoming Season! Missed you, but I understand,.... think we al do. love bea
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glad you are back:) have a good week
Deb
11/20/07 12:06 PM
Glad to hear how well you're connecting with your students:) That is great.
I do hope your mother's arm and health improve soon. It's hard if you're there or not there, but not being there has to feel a mite more helpless. She knows, though, that you would be, and that you love her:)
Busy with life isn't such a bad thing sometimes, depending.