I’m joining up with Ruth Ayres for her weekly link-up, Celebrate This Week. Check out all of the posts linked up at her blog HERE. Thanks for starting this, Ruth!
Friday I
came home in a bad mood. The only word to describe my state was grouchy. Chris
asked what was wrong and I listed off a laundry list of grievances.
After
listening to only about half of them he said, “Wow, and I thought I had a bad
day.”
That made
me pause. There was still SO. MUCH. MORE. But then, I took a breath. And then
another one. I hate feeling this way. I needed to get out of this funk.
So, I
started telling him all of the good things that happened Friday. Time spent
with friends. Funny things the kids had done. Rose hopped on my lap. A former
student, who is also Luke’s friend, came in the kitchen and cracked a joke. I
took another breath.
Feeling a
bit better, I scrolled through my students’ blogs, looking for ones I needed to
approve. I ran across Logan’s. He had told me this morning he wrote a post
asking for others to leave a comment in the form of a poem. He hadn’t told me
why. I read his post and smiled. Then, I commented writing the poem below.
Poetry
To
express
Joy
Fear
Sorrow
In such
few words.
It makes
the words
You use
Have a
bigger impact.
Poetry
cuts to the heart
Of the
subject.
You
cannot hide,
You
cannot lie.
Poetry is
truth on the page.
Finishing
my comment, I closed my laptop. The boys all loaded up in our van and we headed
to the high school basketball game. There I got to talk to some current
students and former students. Looking around the gym I realized how much more
relaxed I was than just a few hours before.
This
celebration that Ruth has us do every single week is so important – even on a
daily basis. It makes me realize that each day is a choice. I can find everything
that went wrong and dwell on that. I’ll be grouchy and angry. Or, I can
breathe. I can look for the awesome moments, because they are there too. My life is full of them.
And if you
are feeling like writing a poem for Logan, you can find his post HERE.
Or, if you
want to comment to other blogs, my students would love that too. They are all
HERE.
Thanks!
