Sunday Reflections

What I do know is that as each day passes, I feel lighter and more human. That's enough for me right now. It's been decades since I've felt this human. I kinda like it.

A Few New Friends

On 05.21.22 By BethIn The Daily Thread

New friends exist everywhere you look.

This Final Friday

On 05.20.22 By BethIn The Daily Thread, Thoughts2 Comments

I may have started teaching in 1995, but I have never known what it feels like to not have August be my New Year's Eve and the first week of June having a holiday-like vibe. I've had bits of dreams of what it would be like to enjoy a gorgeous, chilly autumn morning outside of the cinder block school walls, or...

Monday Musing

On 05.09.22 By BethIn Meditations, The Daily Thread

Why is patience one of the hardest human states to cultivate? Why is it so easy to disrupt?

Sunday Reflections

On 05.08.22 By BethIn The Daily Thread1 Comment

As you can see, I'm not yet back in the flow of a daily post, but I'll keep working on it. There's something to the habitual practice of writing even a short blog post each day that has an alchemical reaction to making me more aware of the moment-to-moment spaces in life, so it's a place I like to be. In the meantime, this week has been interesting...

Puzzled

On 05.04.22 By BethIn The Daily Thread, Thoughts

What if life is actually a jigsaw puzzle of sorts, where we're given an initial box and expected to piece it together so that it looks exactly like the image on the front of the box, mass produced in a factory with the help of the society that created it, but when fully assembled, has no resonance with our heart?

Sunday Reflections

On 05.01.2205.01.22 By BethIn The Daily Thread2 Comments

Hello, friends. It's been some time, hasn't it? Today is a gorgeous, warm, mid-spring day here in Ohio, the kind we spend the rest of the year either wishing for or looking back upon. I've spent the weekend dog sitting for a colleague, which reminded me of...