This is a farewell to summer. The boys said goodbye some time ago, trading in swimsuits for school shorts and knapsacks. Long afternoons of gaming fell away to reveal homework and reading. For me there was still time. With them in school it was almost a mini-vacation. It shifted quickly, however, becoming a task-driven time of problem solving and infant cat watching. Now it is fully over. I strode back into the office, calling out my official return to the business of teaching. Now I get down to the business of building schedules and working hard.
I like the summer. I love the chance to reset but also to explore different aspects of my psyche and spirituality. I played a ridiculous amount of Minecraft and finished the complete Gilmore Girls series. I did work projects and taught classes. I read a half dozen books–some good. I learned how to be a better football coach. I recognized how terrible I am with money.
Every summer I learn something new about myself. This year was no different.
Some Thoughts:
- Right after my last post I sat and watched an hour of CNN (Crappy Network News). They talked about Trump for 43 minutes. They only mentioned 3 of the other Repubs and hardly anything substantive about those three.