We made it through January.
Wait. I don't want to "make it through" my life.
For the most part, I'm pretty good at finding joy in the present. But the combination of winter and COVID makes it tempting to wish away the next two months and land in April, when we will hopefully all have our Fauci Ouchies, as I've heard them called.
Today we had 10 hours and 6 minutes of daylight.
In April we'll have over 13 hours, temps in the 60s.
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Stop.
Today was a good day.
I wore a pretty heart-studded mask.
My masked students staged tableaux illustrating key scenes from the first two chapters of Of Mice and Men.
My other masked students brainstormed video projects, wrote news stories, worked on yearbook pages, and made me laugh over and over again (which, I admit, is their #1 job).
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This blogging experiment is supposedly about COVID-19. That said, I find myself at a place where the virus, still rampant and threatening to kill more of us in the next months than it has so far, must be submerged if I am going to live--sanely--at all.
This is a turning point and a realization. I don't know if I can keep COVID-19 front and center, even as it most deserves a front-and-center positioning.
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Something positive:
Tonight our music department held its winter Swing Inn concert. The jazz band and show choirs performed.
In my early years of teaching, I would have shown up in person to watch my students.
In my middle years of teaching, I stayed home more, instead asking my students the next day "How did your concert go?"
With concerts now live-streamed, I can watch at home while cooking dinner, checking email, and maybe chatting with my husband.
This isn't the fully present clapping in the audience (that might be the parents' job). But it's better than not watching the concert at all.
Is this a COVID win?
Enough.
Be well.
Write.
Allison
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