At some stage I plan to come back and read this article. And then I might feel all inspired to write a real blog entry.
Today, blogging is so ubiquitous that health professionals have begun investigating the health effects of blogging as an activity - concluding that blogging can foster critical thinking and feelings of connection.
Lesson for the day - especially when writing, take encouragement where you can find it.
I am sure that I say this every single year but it is July already and it is flying by. It seems like only weeks ago that I was last teaching Macbeth to a different group of Year Ten students. Before I go back to school I’d like to have my head around the play and some resources in place. It’s certainly a lot easier to go back to than tackle fresh and I am finding that I quite enjoy the play.
Lesson for the day - Shakespeare is better served on an already set table.
I probably spend around half an hour washing dishes most days. On those days when we cook a cake or something then it is more like three-quarter of an hour.
It’s true that it sucks up a bit of time but I like the activity. It is transformative. You take disorder and mess and turn it into clean piles of useful dishes right before your eyes.
Lesson for the day - everyone needs to feel useful.
A good way to get Leila to eat is to distract her by singing. A favourite of both her and Finn is Twinkle Twinkle and also the Everybody Clap song.
All of which reminds me of my dad singing little songs to us kids when I was little. I remember Mum singing Michael Row The Boat Ashore and Puff the Magic Dragon. Dad, however, specialised in songs I could swear were old dance hall tunes.
In particular I remember one about a rabbit and another about a girl learning to swim.
To the best of my memory the words are something like this.
In a cabin in a wood,
Little old man by the window stood.
Saw a rabbit running by,
Frightened as can be.“Help, oh help, oh help” he said
“Before the huntsman shoots me dead.
“Come little rabbit, come with me,
Happy we will be.”
and
Hey Jemima, where’s your Uncle Jim
He’s in the bath tub learning how to swim.
First he does the back stroke, then he does the side,
Now he’s under the water, swimming against the tide
From time to time I sing these to Finn and Leila. I can’t that hey are as popular as the other tunes named but I’d like to give them the chance to inflict these ditties on their kids on day.
Lesson for the day - family is all about keeping traditions goings.
I am just freshly home from the last class of my seven week Tai Chi course. In the first class I was quite clearly the most clumsy and graceless and seven weeks later I am still in this position.
In spite of this I am really glad that I have given this a go. I don’t know that I am graceful per se but I feel like I have made a couple of steps in that direction. I like that it is taken slowly. Slowly in execution and slowly and deliberately in the learning,
And while I might not have developed physically it has given me a fresh understanding of things like balance, movement and breathing. Chances are very good that I’ll go back for Level Two in a couple of weeks.
Lesson for the day - indulge your curiosity.
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