I spent 2 hours in my classroom today. I got 3 workstations set up for my mobile children. I'm using those cages that the previous teacher had built for two of them. I put together a grid of 4 activities that each student has to do in order to earn something like a visit to the sensory room, computer time, or story time. I used the old picture cards I found. I wish I could find the Board Maker CD so that I could make some more appropriate cards but these will have to do for now.

I did not accomplish all that I set out to do. For one thing I didn't redo the bulletin board. But I ran out of energy. Didn't sleep too well last night. I think I'm getting sick.

I was not the only teacher at the school today though. A third grade teacher came in to mop her room. It seems she's infested with ants.

I was thinking some more on the topic of humility and then I glanced at my perpetual calendar. Today's reading says:

When you listen
to your inner voice
and let your truth shine through,
your being will expand
and bless all the things
surrounding you.

I think that inner voice is God. I think that truth is my relationship with God and the clarity of who I really am. That expansion is my relationship with others.

I've exchanged a lot of enlightening e-mails with Kenny this evening. I have such a weird feeling about something coming down the pike and I feel like I know who is involved. I was vastly amused until I began talking to Kenny. Now I'm reflective. The songs today on the radio have been speaking to me about a lot of things but this one seemed to be an answer to one of Kenny's statements about shadows and light.

Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me


Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin
Available on the album Caribou



I can't light no more of your darkness
All my pictures seem to fade to black and white
I'm growing tired and time stands still before me
Frozen here on the ladder of my life

Too late to save myself from falling
I took a chance and changed your way of life
But you misread my meaning when I met you
Closed the door and left me blinded by the light

Don't let the sun go down on me
Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see
I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free
But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

I can't find, oh the right romantic line
But see me once and see the way I feel
Don't discard me just because you think I mean you harm
But these cuts I have they need love to help them heal