Journal Entry #4 -a list

Recent thoughts:

• missing the commute?  -more specifically missing the time in my day where I drive in the country and listen to podcasts or Audible books
• local well-known man dies, he was the local grocery store manager for several years before retiring and then getting diagnosed with cancer...no funeral
• Continuing to ask myself "How is this situation serving or growing me longterm and right now?" -Dani Spies
• Monday 2/23 great job with no videos all day...yikes I sure was on FB a lot...limiting those hours moving forward
• Doctors and nurses are pleading for masks
• Mama Doctor Jones -OB-Gyn YouTuber I love!  (also Doctor Mike)
• Summer Plans to go to Nags Head-- house rented ...?
• No recycling (due to campus closing) how do we deal...throw away...keep in the garage
• watching the windows as my husband leaves
• Keeping my same schedule of showering/yoga before my husband leaves --dressing cute when I need to get a lot done, doing my hair
• grocery store low on meat, my school gave me a turkey for Christmas--I have taken it out of the freezer to thaw...irony?
• hand towels to one at a time on the rack-- sanitizing my phone  --drying our hands is important
• soda stream
• hearing from my Dual Credit student that we have a date tomorrow to Zoom--such joy! (I've been checking the CANVAS analytics like I used to check my PO box in college...refresh!)
• must limit my time on Blogger---surprised by how much I enjoy writing freely 
• Shared Blog URL Posts on Hank Green and Dani Spies video comments to "let them know" how much their videos on Wuthering and Dealing with Stress meant to me (us)
• Lesson from WIC -"we are the food offer-ers" --applied to now -- "I am the music/education offer-er" --this is in response to a leader saying "we can't make them do it" --How is that any different than all the time? Why should all be neglected because we can not hold students accountable? I choose to offer up ideas and show that I am spending 20 minutes a day M-F making or listening to music...no pressure just doing my craft because I believe in its value and I believe it is important to encourage creating and to share what is created
• Three things to keep in mind when creating -- 

1. Be present
2. Try
3. Be Unafraid to Fail  -from John Green's wife Sarah Urist