All posts tagged: fate intervenes

Life Gives You Lemonade When You Don’t Know What You’re Doing

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A few years ago, I met a family whose newly turned two year old son was going to start his term in my classroom.  “Milby,”  dad calmly informed me, “is pretty mellow. He is just weaning off of his binky, and my wife is about to deliver his baby brother in a few days.  We’re really excited, but I am afraid that all of this change is going to be too much for him.”  Ahhh, to be a child, when everyone around you goes the extra mile to keep your day to day living as smooth as silk. As a toddler, adults can be sympathetic when too many things are changing all at the same time.  We do our best to orient little ones into a new classroom, into the new role of being an older sibling, and literally holding their hands when growth and unease come together and they don’t quite know what they are doing.Though I find comfort  in predictability, I have always embraced change and the mind opening that comes with it. …

Random Acts of Awesomeness

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  “Mercury’s retrograde periods can cause our plans to go awry.  However, this is an excellent time to reflect on the past.  Intuition is high during these periods, and coincidences can be extraordinary.”  (source) Something has been in the air.   According to my friend, Oddsauce, last week Mercury was wrapping up a month long period of being in retrograde, causing communication between devices and between people to be interrupted, and for one’s mind and efforts to be in a state of disarray.  As mentioned in my past two posts, I was very disappointed about something I missed and I was feeling more than a tad itchy on the home front.  Having made the decision only this month to focus on growing as a writer, I was under the impression that it would be cake!  I just have to keep writing, just flowing and developing myself with no second guessing, but  I have been drafting bits and pieces of nothing,  coming up dry because I cannot seem to get my thoughts straight.  What on earth …