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chelidonThe Magickal Arts Restorative here in April is full. Actually, it's overfull -- one of the local attendees generously offered to put up several more people at her place so we could accomodate the wait list. For anyone who wanted to attend but could not, we'll probably do something similar next Spring, perhaps adding visual and fine arts (writing, painting, etc) to the chant, song, music, movement and rhythm we're working with this year. This really feels good. After having made the difficult decision last year to postpone the event because of family health issues, I'm so glad to see this come together now, not only because it's a topic that really sings to my soul, but because the fact that we can do it now is a measure of how well everything has gone over the last year healthwise. I am way, way beyond grateful. If you were sitting any closer, you couldn't help but hear my barbaric YAWP.
After a winter with no significant (i.e., over 6" at a time) snow storms so far, it now looks like we may get a real Nor'easter -- blizzard conditions and between 1 1/2 and 3 feet over the 24 hours between late tonight and Thurday a.m. That's a good bit of snow, even for us. I'm definitely putting the ice chains on the tractor tonight. I think it got down to about 6 below last night, but it may be 10 to 15 degrees warmer tonight, which will be much appreciated by me if/when I have to go out in the morning and plow (for the first time this year, by the way, so I certainly can't complain -- in fact, the only time I've had to take the tractor out of the barn all winter so far was to pull one of the RTITs students out of a ditch down the road on Sunday). And I am very grateful for our nice toasty wood boiler, which keeps us all very warm in the house.
Thursday afternoon (assuming the roads are passable by then) I have an interview for the Director position at the hospital that I applied for back in November. After the long silence, I'd assumed they weren't interested, but no, they're quite interested, just slow as molasses. That call for interview came in not five minutes after I just got done telling![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lylythe_strega over the dining room table that I think I finally got the freelance writing work back to a more stable footing again, after a period of relative chaos including months of unpaid invoices from major clients. Multiverse, thy name is Irony. And something else for me to be grateful for -- this way, if I leave full-time freelance writing for a while, it will be because I choose to, not because I have to, and that's a good thing.
This last weekend's meeting of RTITs (Reclaiming Teachers in Training), the last in the second 1-year cycle, reminded me all over again of why I teach, and why I am especially dedicated to help teach teachers. Such deep juicy, rewarding work, and what an incredible, dedicated, talented bunch of folks. Watching the ripples go out and out into the community is something that I most certainly do not own, and can take only a small piece of the credit/responsibility/blame ;> for, but which brings me inordinate joy.
Doing a totally different kind of teaching, this afternoon I went with my partner to do this month's environmental education teaching at our son's school. The ELF (Environmental Learning for the Future) program created by the Vermont Institute of Natural Science -- yes,ravenedgewalker the same place we went to see the raptors and ravens) is an incredibly good program for teaching kids natural science and environmental awareness, and depends on a pool of local volunteers to make it work. After a previous two months of teaching oriented around earth/geology and then air, this month was not fire, but sound, and I got to teach about the physics of sound and the biology of hearing, rhythm/drumming, musical instruments, sound and noise pollution, a bit on how animals use sound and environmental impacts of sound on habitat, and, incidentally, how to make your own musical instruments and how to use found objects and your own body as a drum. Playing a "follow the leader" rhythm game with the kids, we made so much noise we disrupted another class, which I proudly take as a sign of success ;>
Time to go finish an article and prep for the storm, part of which consists in bringing in extra wood for the boiler, carrying extra gas down to the generator house, and finding the hose so I can change the water in the hot tub....no reason not to enjoy ourselves if we get snowed in!
After a winter with no significant (i.e., over 6" at a time) snow storms so far, it now looks like we may get a real Nor'easter -- blizzard conditions and between 1 1/2 and 3 feet over the 24 hours between late tonight and Thurday a.m. That's a good bit of snow, even for us. I'm definitely putting the ice chains on the tractor tonight. I think it got down to about 6 below last night, but it may be 10 to 15 degrees warmer tonight, which will be much appreciated by me if/when I have to go out in the morning and plow (for the first time this year, by the way, so I certainly can't complain -- in fact, the only time I've had to take the tractor out of the barn all winter so far was to pull one of the RTITs students out of a ditch down the road on Sunday). And I am very grateful for our nice toasty wood boiler, which keeps us all very warm in the house.
Thursday afternoon (assuming the roads are passable by then) I have an interview for the Director position at the hospital that I applied for back in November. After the long silence, I'd assumed they weren't interested, but no, they're quite interested, just slow as molasses. That call for interview came in not five minutes after I just got done telling
lylythe_strega over the dining room table that I think I finally got the freelance writing work back to a more stable footing again, after a period of relative chaos including months of unpaid invoices from major clients. Multiverse, thy name is Irony. And something else for me to be grateful for -- this way, if I leave full-time freelance writing for a while, it will be because I choose to, not because I have to, and that's a good thing.This last weekend's meeting of RTITs (Reclaiming Teachers in Training), the last in the second 1-year cycle, reminded me all over again of why I teach, and why I am especially dedicated to help teach teachers. Such deep juicy, rewarding work, and what an incredible, dedicated, talented bunch of folks. Watching the ripples go out and out into the community is something that I most certainly do not own, and can take only a small piece of the credit/responsibility/blame ;> for, but which brings me inordinate joy.
Doing a totally different kind of teaching, this afternoon I went with my partner to do this month's environmental education teaching at our son's school. The ELF (Environmental Learning for the Future) program created by the Vermont Institute of Natural Science -- yes,
ravenedgewalker the same place we went to see the raptors and ravens) is an incredibly good program for teaching kids natural science and environmental awareness, and depends on a pool of local volunteers to make it work. After a previous two months of teaching oriented around earth/geology and then air, this month was not fire, but sound, and I got to teach about the physics of sound and the biology of hearing, rhythm/drumming, musical instruments, sound and noise pollution, a bit on how animals use sound and environmental impacts of sound on habitat, and, incidentally, how to make your own musical instruments and how to use found objects and your own body as a drum. Playing a "follow the leader" rhythm game with the kids, we made so much noise we disrupted another class, which I proudly take as a sign of success ;>Time to go finish an article and prep for the storm, part of which consists in bringing in extra wood for the boiler, carrying extra gas down to the generator house, and finding the hose so I can change the water in the hot tub....no reason not to enjoy ourselves if we get snowed in!
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Tractor Chains
Date: 2007-02-13 11:30 pm (UTC)Re: Tractor Chains
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Date: 2007-02-13 11:48 pm (UTC)Good luck with the storm prep. Warm thoughts to you. :)
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Date: 2007-02-14 09:49 pm (UTC)Fresh snow Margaritas, anyone?
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Date: 2007-02-14 11:18 pm (UTC)(*lol*)
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