The Fly Life

Spending my day preparing my apartment to be lived in again and not simply serve as a space to stop for food, water and sleep. Preparing my students to learn and grow, not simply be force fed information only to regurgitate it onto a classroom assessment or a state exam because who is the state to tell my students what they should or shouldn't know.. yes, they need to know their times tables but they also need to learn how to ride a bike and that part of that process is to fall and get bumps and bruises along the way. Yes, I will teach them the state mandate, but I will also teach them what it means to be passionate and compassionate when they see someone hurting, to not feel pity but to feel empowered to change what made them sad in the first place, and then they see joy, to share in that joy because there's so much of it and it's not when they look harder that they will find that joy, but when they open their eyes to a wider horizon because we are so focused on what we can see and touch to make us happy, but those things that are almost invisible to the too-trained eye, like the leaf that falls from a tree but never hits the ground because it is picked up by the wind. Let their spirits fall, and teach them to never hit the ground because they are picked up by the visible and invisible. Yes, I will be their magician and show them the invisible. And through all of this, I will prepare myself to be a stronger person every day, not just for myself, but for everyone around me.