Gratitude List:
1.  The way the setting sun slants between the trees at the corner where the bees live, making the hive and the beeyard glow, while everything else is in shadow.
2.  Grammar.  The structure of language,  The way it creates the bridge over which our ideas can  travel between us.  I know I have been repeating versions of this one recently.  It’s just that as I delve more deeply again into this sacred discipline of the structure of language, I am again struck by what a miracle and a gift speech is.
3.  Singing in a circle so we can look into each others’ eyes.
4.  Exhausting as it is to add more work to my plate, I am loving this first course of the set that my school requires new teachers to take.  This one is called Building Caring Communities.  In some ways it feels a bit like a repeat of work I have done in college and grad school, and on my own in the intervening years, but I think I always gain new insight when I step back into different topics, especially when I am with a new cohort.
5.  Cool morning.

May we walk in Beauty.