Thurs
Weds to and fro
Mileage for the year: 1,604.3 Miles, Ave 5.46 miles per day.
Seventy-one days to go; must average 5.57 to hit 2,000 for the year.
Tuesday to and fro
Tinicum Noreaster
Great Memoir
A memoir from a psychiatrist after forty years of treating people in Genoa. I had so many quotes I loved.
This is terrific advice for any new teacher:
Giulia, don’t plant your words in dry land,
in the wrong season
or when the field is covered in crows.
Store your words away for when the land is humid,
the season opportune and the crows faraway.
This is advice for all those looking for someone or something to blame:
How nice it would be to have a culprit at hand for all my problems.
But if you are born a cat, is it by any chance the fault of your
parents who are cats?
Being a cat is a tragedy, like so many other facts of life.
Finally, this section on being at the hospital could easily be written by any teacher. Too long to type, photo of text:
Milone, Paolo. The Art of Binding People. Translated by Lucy Rand. Europa Editions, 2023.
Fri to and fro
15th and Green
Thurs Best Photo
Morning Commute, Race Street Yard.
Teaching
I think about my life in the classroom and these two early mornings with wordle capture it pretty well.
Some days I’ve got an awesome set of activities that I’ve gathered and collated to ensure engagement and progress on the quarter’s big project and it’s a disaster (frame one). Other days I come in and say something like, “hey what’d y’all think about the reading?” and a magical conversation occurs (frame two).
I get it — you create your own luck through preparation and consistency — but a good portion of the time you’re being carried along by whatever energy the world has put out that day and you’re just trying to steer things as best you can.
Thurs AM Walk
Weds Both Ways
With 83 days left in the year, I am averaging 5.35 miles a day. To break 2,000 miles for the year, I need to pick up the pace slightly.
