I wish for you,
when you lose your way,
a bright feather on your path.
I wish for you,
when your eyes are spangled with tears,
a shaft of shining light to prism you a rainbow.
I wish for you,
when the load is heavy,
a gentle wind to lift you up.
May your roads be green.
May your stars shine brightly in the night.
May the valley ahead be filled with small hearth fires
and the sound of singing.
Gratitude List:
1. Thoughtful, helpful,kind colleagues. A healthy community of teachers can develop a healthy community of students.
2. First days. New beginnings. In the autumn when I have not returned to school, I have often been jealous of the people who do. Clean slate. Sharp pencils. Possibilities.
3. Trusting the net to appear.
4. Meeting my children’s teachers and new principal. The boys will be well cared for, and in a rich learning environment.
5. Letting go. I am ready for the first day of school, but the last minute brought up all the thousand things that suddenly need to happen. Right now! I will not get all the thousand things done in the next two hours. Still, I can let them go, and know that the day will happen as it happens. This is the first lesson.
May we walk in Beauty!
Mockingbird Chronicles 
I am in a season of lost, which is okay except that it doesn’t feel good. It’s scary and lonely and sometimes confusing. So I asked Papa-God to let me know that I was at least still going in the right direction by putting feathers in my path as I move about each day. Just this morning, as I am weary and wracked with questionings, I look down at my feet and there, a feather. Then I come to check the hundreds of accumulated email messages and I open this one and read that first stanza…I love moments like these. They make me feel a little less lost, a little less untethered.
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Feeling sort of teary here, in response to that. Oh, may your feathers make wings for you. May this season of lost become a time when you make your own map of the territory. The words that you leave behind you on the path will be like bright shining stones for the next lost soul to follow.
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