Today I'm joining a Slice of Life hosted by Two Writing Teachers. Stop by for links to this amazing community of writers. Recently Jill Fisch posted this on her Facebook page: Jill Fisch's new blog: I Notice, I Wonder For me, summer hasn't been slow. It's been busy. Though I've been out of school since the beginning of June, it wasn't until July 16th, that my professional work took a bit of a break. Every week since school ended I've been involved in meetings, professional development sessions, completing work related to school, and catching up on professional reading. Now, granted, the schedule has been a bit more slowed, but it's still been full of professional work. Finally on July 16th, I decided I was able to find the time for a two week break (sort of). In one of those paused moments in the last few days, Jill's post caught my attention as I read …. "to recapture that relaxed, slow feeling of summer in the mid
Amen. Reminds me of this Mary Oliver quote (from whose PF post? I don't remember...) I copied into my notebook:
ReplyDelete"And what else can we do when the mysteries present themselves
but hope to pluck from the basket the brisk words
that will applaud them..."
Love this! Thanks, Mary Lee.
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ReplyDeleteTruth, plain and simple. :)
ReplyDeleteLovely, and we just need to slow down and take them in, thanks!
ReplyDeleteThat's always the hard part.
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