I am a Libra. It’s an identity marker. While I’m really not THAT into the Western (or Eastern) horoscope, I do find that I function better with equilibrium, seek balance, and go to extremes when I’m not doing well. I also try to listen and reconcile multiple sides of an issue, am sociable and capricious. […]
Month: May 2021
Blessings
To be surrounded by love and to be able to take it in To have your words and work make a profound difference in the lives of others To have community that stands with and for you when you can’t stand for yourself To have (chosen) family that reminds you that putting on your oxygen […]
Reckoning, Reclamation, Resistance, and Restoration
CW: Eating disorder, Suicidality, Trauma (Skip to the Tl;dr if you don’t want to read that content) Dear Friends, This post is a hard one, but one I’ve been contemplating for a very long time. It’s a conversation I need to have with you all and there is no better time than today. May is […]
Stepping Backwards, Moving Forward, Coming Home
After exactly one year and one day as the director of teacher education and a full professor at my current institution, I will be leaving my position on June 2, and return to being an associate professor (for non-academics, this is a step down on the professorial ladder) and a faculty member (on sabbatical for […]
Broken
Today, there were beautiful people and beautiful moments and joy and community in those beautiful people and beautiful moments. For that I am grateful. Community, beauty, joy, moments are keeping me alive. But today, I realized that I am completely broken. I have been cracking for awhile, hairline fractures belying the tensions of this time […]
Finding Family, Fragility and Strength
I am ending this Mother’s Day weekend like my last post began, with reflection & amidst another wave of grief, one which is strong, but which I find easier to withstand. Almost all the things I hoped for this Mother’s Day weekend happened as planned. My sister made it safely out of Yangon, and […]
Lost and Found
Whew. Grief. It comes for you out of nowhere sometimes, or maybe from everywhere. On a morning when you have a three hour professional learning session to give. At the end of a week you weren’t sure you’d make it through. At the start of a weekend that simultaneously holds so much longing, hope and […]