Wow, Summer Vacation Comes Around Again!
One of the best parts of being a teacher is....
...aside from helping disabled children and their families improve their quality of life and enabling them to live the most full and meaningful life possible, interacting with the best staff and school I have ever known, getting paid rather well for the work I do, continually learning new and interesting things about rare and unusual people with rare and unusual genetic problems and other conditions, getting to play guitar for a school full of fun and appreciate preschoolers every day, and loving almost every day, is...
...having the whole summer off to do whatever I want!!! 10 weeks of freedom for my inner child, to wander and roam far and wide through "my backyard," the San Gabriel Mountain range from Cajon Pass to La Canada/Flintridge. I've seen Big Horn Sheep, Bobcats, Bears, Coyotes, hiked so many good trails I've lost count, and built up my health.
I haven't heard or read any news so my blood pressure and anger quotient is down, I've written poems, new songs on guitar, talked with many interesting characters and desert rats, driven my old 4WD truck to interesting places in the middle of nowhere in particular, raced my old buick down practically traffic-less desert highways, and made love with my wife.
God Almighty, life is good right now, for me at least.
Like Toad and the horse sing in Disney's "The Wind in the Willows" cartoon: "We're merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily on our way to no where....in par-ti-cu-lar!"
Ah, serendipity, serenity, and desert sunsets! This is the first year in a long time we haven't had a family tragedy or health crisis, and I am appreciating every minute.
OK, end of way-too-optimistic blog. I better go read a bunch of the usual negative, ironic, self-important , and totally irrelevant blogs around here before I make somebody ill. ;~)>
...aside from helping disabled children and their families improve their quality of life and enabling them to live the most full and meaningful life possible, interacting with the best staff and school I have ever known, getting paid rather well for the work I do, continually learning new and interesting things about rare and unusual people with rare and unusual genetic problems and other conditions, getting to play guitar for a school full of fun and appreciate preschoolers every day, and loving almost every day, is...
...having the whole summer off to do whatever I want!!! 10 weeks of freedom for my inner child, to wander and roam far and wide through "my backyard," the San Gabriel Mountain range from Cajon Pass to La Canada/Flintridge. I've seen Big Horn Sheep, Bobcats, Bears, Coyotes, hiked so many good trails I've lost count, and built up my health.
I haven't heard or read any news so my blood pressure and anger quotient is down, I've written poems, new songs on guitar, talked with many interesting characters and desert rats, driven my old 4WD truck to interesting places in the middle of nowhere in particular, raced my old buick down practically traffic-less desert highways, and made love with my wife.
God Almighty, life is good right now, for me at least.
Like Toad and the horse sing in Disney's "The Wind in the Willows" cartoon: "We're merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily on our way to no where....in par-ti-cu-lar!"
Ah, serendipity, serenity, and desert sunsets! This is the first year in a long time we haven't had a family tragedy or health crisis, and I am appreciating every minute.
OK, end of way-too-optimistic blog. I better go read a bunch of the usual negative, ironic, self-important , and totally irrelevant blogs around here before I make somebody ill. ;~)>
posted by Drew | 6:55 AM
1 Comments:
Yo, dude, don't worry, give it time and something bad will happen.
Mister Negative
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