Our younger daughter has ups and downs with distance learning so far. Our other children, too. Maybe most kids do. Not made easier by the two-way bilingual dynamic for the program she’s in. Recently I sat with our six year old as she began her school day. “Mariana Mariana...” the kids repeat. I sit quietly …
Category: mental health
Lyrics Post: “Ants Marching”
This song wasn’t the first I heard by Dave Matthews, but it probably was the one that hooked me to his music. “He wakes up in the morning Does his teeth bite to eat and he's rolling Never changes a thing The week ends the week begins She thinks, we look at each other Wondering …
Hand-Off
Parents have been doing it forever; more broadly speaking, caregivers of kids have been doing it forever. It’s how we support them. It’s also how we support each other. Chip in; come through when needed; be a go-to person, reliable, some one others can count on. Someone your kids can count on. What happens next? …
All Houses Shake
Let's start this way, from the Book of Luke, Chapter 6. “I will show you what someone is like who comes to me,listens to my words, and acts on them.That one is like a man building a house,who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock;when the flood came, the river burst against that housebut …
Milkshake!
Weekend here, walks in the door, just four little days, felt it felt it, felt like more. Smoke in the skies, COVID all around, bump through the days, count them down. Weekend’s here, marked by a shake-up, hoops on the screen, play-doh milkshake, after supper snack offered in the wake, Wake of a week we’ll …
Fire In The Sky
It’s been quite a crazy year, this 2020. We’ve got the Global COVID Pandemic, over 7,000 wild fires in the Western US so far, and sequester life and distance learning and so much wrapped up in between. A weird year filled with uncertainty and many unsettling things. Here in the San Francisco Bay Area where …
Lyrics Post: “Candela”
Quite a risque song, if you find the translation. Or better yet, check out the Youtube video at the end, with the English translation embedded. Listen and enjoy the song, the beat, the performance, the play. Ay candela, candelaCandela, me quemo aéAy candela, candelaCandela, me quemo aé Puso un baile un jutía para una gran …
So Many Messages, One Purpose
There are so many ways, so many takes, but in the end just one purpose, I think: EQUALITY. After 400 years a society, and almost 250 years a country, let it be so: that all people are equal and should be treated as such. These names come to mind: Tommie Smith, John Carlos, Harry Edwards, …
Back At It
A little longer stretch, a little gentler start as we kick back into the "new normal" after the three-day weekend capped by the Labor Day holiday. The kids back to distance learning. The adults back to work-from-home. Easy does it. I think about the riders in the Tour de France, entering their second week of …
Labor Day
The late 19th Century saw the labor movement gain ground. As the turn of the century approached the movement spurred popular support to such degree that national, and international holidays were established to recognize and celebrate workers around the world. During this same time more reasonable norms were established for number of working hours, and …
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