Positively

Last week of classes = no time for blogging.

My last classes are this Thursday and Saturday, then I’m off till June 16! This semester really whizzed by, and I’m hoping the next two will feel the same. I was challenged in some classes, not so much in others, but I guess that’s the way it goes.

I’ve already started in on my break-from-school reading list, and already I feel much more sane to have the time to just read. I’ve started Black Ants and Buddhists: Thinking Critically and Thinking Differently in the Primary Grades, which sounds like something I’d read for class, but it’s not. The author is a local teacher who I’ve met, and her book is a fascinating look on how to implement critical pedagogy and issues of equity and justice into 1st and 2nd grades. Good stuff.

Last night I sunk my teeth into a new exciting autobiography by Alison Bechdel, the cartoonist who brings us Dykes to Watch Out For, and her book is done in classic Bechdel style. Love her.

My spirits are high these days as life emerges all around me in the outside world, and I continue to keep hope that we will be creating a bit of life ourselves. I think my incessant positive-ness occasionally crosses the line, though - the other day E. and I were driving in the rain, and I started in on how lovely and green the grass is when it rains, and how good all this rain will be for the flowers and the veggies, and oh isn’t it amazing how perfectly-timed Mother Nature is with this flower popping up just as that one has gone by, etc. Really, someone just needs to slap me when I get like this.

Here’s to keeping positive to the extent that it is not repulsive…

P.S. Check out my new “Read” page. I’ll be updating regularly, and feel free to offer up book suggestions of your own.