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1-7-26 Office. 08:08… mood here is elevated. Perfect for me, for a teaching day. Three trainees. Deck queued up, notes on other screen. One thing I’m stressing today is INTERPRETATION. Of what you do. Yes, there’s a job description, and KPI’s, and quota, and all the entailed and expected and demanded. But, how do you…

Everything in this new year, especially Q1, is about Sales Heights ideas, getting out of sales and deploying differently its principles and sights.

10:48…. Refusing anything but ALL of it. Everything I see and dream, and actualizing. Meeting started. The Highway, underway. Stats gone over. I’m getting out to run, that’s it. That’s what I’ve decided. Business as usual, we assign ourselves the outcomes by what we materialize in the present. Couple things present without warning or notice…

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1-5-26 Back in the office. Coffee #2. Well, 3 actually. Made one at home with the Nurse in an inaugural effort to save money for the wedding and honeymoon, and some other trips we have sketched. 10:31 Feeling more than just a slight slide of confidence. All journals hit this morning, and content created for…

10:59

Seems like such a weird time on the clock. Music off, and I watch it become 11:00. Now what. I cannot possibly have anymore coffee. Today’s big accomplishment was pausing, seeing ME and where I am, not turning a minor something into a full personality assessment. I drank water. Okay, I drank coffee. I laughed…

I’m taking a minute to watch the rain. This moment is mine. I’m not sharing it with anyone—except the dog—and that’s just fucking fine.

The world can keep shouting and scheduling and selling me urgency. I’ll be right here, letting the sky rinse the day. If peace shows up small and ordinary, I’m not arguing. I’m accepting it like the two lattes I’ve already killed.

A Growth Beg

Saturday mornings lie to us. They whisper that productivity must wear sweatpants or that healing requires silence, candles, and a personality overhaul. I disagree. Healing sometimes looks like laughing at yourself while reheating coffee you forgot about twice. “Growth” as so many like to say and repeat and put on their car somewhere, can arrive…

Back in the classroom….

First prompt for a wondering and/or wandering writing – Keep wandering. Exploring. Don’t seek definition, or any certitude. There is a fine prize in whimsicality. In exploration. Ask yourself what you want from your pages, from your journal. Be prepared to have the past you talk to the present. More than a time capsule, the…

ENGLISH 5 – 5/3/21, Monday

5-5:10: How are you feeling, now that the semester is over? Plans for Summer? 5:10-5:40: Sedaris…. -Your opinion. -What he showed you. -How you connected with him. -Are you going to read other works of his? Why or why not? -Again, considering out semester’s dominant idea or theme of Truth, how is Sedairs’ truth-telling different…

English 5 – 3/17/21, Wednesday

Quick meeting tonight…. 5-5:10pm: Intro….. How was/is your day?? 5:10-5:35pm: Irby…. Where are you in the book? (Don’t worry about spoiling…. Even if you know what happens, you still have to read and for your own opinions and reactions.) What is in your reactions? How is Irby narrating her days versus Lawson? 5:35-5:50pm: What do…

English 5 Prompt for 2-page paper … 2/3/21

BEFORE I TELL YOU WHAT THE PROMPT IS, BE SURE TO EMAIL IT TO ME BEFORE OUR ZOOM MEETING ON MONDAY, 2/8/21 Respond to the following, in two FULL pages: How would you describe Jenny Lawson’s strength? Write your opinion, and support it. That simple. Don’t think of this as some English class paper. KNOW,…

English 1B, Wednesday, 4/22/20

6-6:10pm: Intro, Narrating the day, checking in… how are you doing, what have you been doing…? 6:10-6:30: Talk to us about your drafts, post excerpts below and questions for your colleagues. ASK US QUESTIONS. 6:30-6:50: What is the opinion you developed, and what do you want readers of your writing on your author(s) to learn…

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