After what felt like an eternity, I am home. No more big travels. No more weeks away from home or my people. I have completed each task and will now move forward to being with my kiddos and preparing for another school year. This makes me happy (well, except when my kiddos are cranky, hateful to one another, and/or difficult - then I want to run away from home again).
On a completely unrelated note, I have often said that I was going to buy an island and live apart from the world. I could rule as a benevolent dictator and life would be much easier. Years, I have said this. On my little island there would be no political parties, nothing there would resemble American politics, and if there were any issues, I could bury my head in the sand - literally and figuratively. My students always get a kick out of my far-fetched idealized version of life on my island. And that is okay; they aren't invited ;).
As the last few weeks have developed in our world, I am getting closer and closer to wanting to seek out such an existence. Regardless of where I stand on one issue or another, I am just so over all of it. We are a country divided. Ironically with the Confederate flag issue at the forefront, I feel we are as divided now as we were in 1861. Different issues (sort of), but the reality is the same. We cannot see past our own opinions (or those that we have thoughtlessly taken from someone else) to be rational. And I am over it. The fine line between truth and grace has been so smudged (or tangled up) that most of us don't recognize it anymore. Or maybe even sadder, we aren't even looking for it.
So I am in the market for a nice island, equipped with running water and electricity, to begin a new life in my Utopia. If you hear of anything like that, reasonably priced, of course, please let me know.
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