Congrats on taking control of your mental health and distancing yourself from people who make that hard to do. I hope you're able to have some fun times with your coworkers!
Happy early birthday!
Not sure if it's the same type of thing, but my cat has a habit of standing downstairs and crying at bedtime until we yell, "Ralph, we're up here!" 😂
Damn, Lyle Lovett is good. I might have been the youngest person in the audience, and I'm not that young. Glad I was able to be there!
Basically it's an approach to teaching music with a heavy focus on giving students the building blocks they need to have a creative relationship with music. It comes from the idea that music is inherently in all of us and that everyone has something valuable to offer. As teachers our job is to give students the tools and vocabulary to communicate it.
Keep spending time with these people! In some ways the state of society certainly does suck, but finding our people who go against that grain has the potential to make things better. At the very least, we can make some things better in the small ways we can, and that's still something important.
Today's the third anniversary of my dad's death. It's still so hard.
Also why do the children look like weird little buff men? Is that an effect of the pickling?
Cabbage patch kid.
Moms for Liberty was trying to take over our school board, and thanks to a lot of canvassing, phone banking, and fundraising, they failed!
I just want to say that the downtime made me extra sure that I will follow beehaw wherever it goes. I'm definitely more lurky than chatty, but after browsing via other instances, I missed beehaw.
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