7 June, 2008

This morning has been one of reflection and evaluation following a couple of sleepless nights and a week that could be described as “full on”. It is a strange winter morning with a warm wind and sun following a week of hard frosts, all of which I’m sure have a reasonable explanation but from my little spot in the universe feels strange.

The morning has started with a wander around the garden. I tend to do this to take stock of both the garden and my mind and it is nice to see the garden is moving into winter mode without to much damage. Following this was a read of the latest post on Kunstler.com and a visit to Robert Fulghum’s site. I enjoy reading both of these people’s work for varying reasons but both seem to help stabilise my mind which at the moment is an important focus. I’m not ready to try and express the school side of this week as the things that happened and the things I heard from people who should know better were quite shocking. It concerns me how stagnant and conservative our institutionalised education has become. The infrastructure drives and restricts the education and people who protect this infrastructure are starting to do so with quite high levels of anger.

It was not a good time to cut back on all caffeine and alcohol. I almost made it through the week but ended up with one coffee and a single whisky.

For now I am going to make a nice breakfast, enjoy the winter sun and work towards a relaxed and positive day in all its strangeness.