This season is going to be a fast one. Just three weeks until we are on break again, with students getting more excitable by the day. I'm going to miss their energy and laughs when I am out! If I am feeling well I will pop up and hang out a bit, and get a sense of whether I am ready to come back earlier than the two weeks or not. I love my job and the kids I work with so much.
Neighbors, family, friends, and coworkers are all being so helpful and nice about The Event on Thursday. I know how lucky I am to have so many kind people in my life. I've really come to know that the "things" in life don't matter that much at all -- but the people do. The relationships we have that get us through tough times, help us enjoy good times, and just help us explore the day to day way we live, are crucial. I treasure the people in my life, and "grateful" doesn't begin to describe it.
Not to mention the animals in my life, with 12 under my care right now. Am sending the three big birds to Camp tomorrow night and while I know they will be safe, I know they will also be terrified, and I am sick about that. Hoping for a speedy recovery so that I can get them home. The thought of not having Hapi greet me in the morning, and Kizzy back him up with a big "Helll-oooo!" is a shock to my system. But, it has to be done. Silver lining -- there will be no need to see and pick up big bird poop for a few days, either! Still, I'll miss them so much and hope I can bend enough to change their papers and clean their cages soon.
With all that is going on with my cousin and also my surgery, it is hard to think about art right now. At least I am still posting something here. I've developed this writing habit and am trying to stick to it, just for the sake of writing. Writing is creating too, and at least I feel like I've "made" something. Hoping that after surgery is done and I have less leg pain I can get back to what I love most. Sewing, painting, beading, more. Sigh.
What will you make today?