11/4: good work
...by the students in both of my classes today, and some nice office hour conversations too.
11/3: finding candy
...that Chris slipped under my office door so that it would be waiting for me after Greek class.
11/2: a very, very good box
...loaned to me by a colleague so I'd have a secure place for the medieval manuscript leaves my Latin class is using this semester.
11/1: a second day
...of walking on the ridge. I didn't manage my full hour-long walk either day, but I took detours down to the lake to snap some photos of autumn reflections on the water, and it felt good to be out in the air. Today as I walked a car slowed down beside me: it was two of my neighbors, who said that they had missed seeing me walk recently.
10/31: sharing
...a recipe from my childhood with Chris. It's a jelly bar recipe from a long-ago neighbor who has now passed, but her daughter gave the recipe to another one of my former neighbors, and she gave it to her sister, who gave it to me. You know it must be a good thing if three of us remembered it fondly (after decades) and wanted to have a copy of it.
10/29: a coincidence
I've been listening to The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy, and yesterday I reached a part that described all the sounds that could be heard at a particular time and place. This morning Chris mentioned that he was thinking of doing a mindful listening activity in which he would ask his students to list all the things they could hear while no one in the class was talking. I mentioned the passage from The Constant Nymph, and Chris said that he knew that passage too! It's not a likely book for Chris to have read, and it's just luck that I'm listening to it now and reached that specific part when I did. I felt like I travelled to a foreign city and unexpectedly saw a friend from home walking down the street.
10/28: remembering
...that present-day Greeks say χρονια πολλα to wish people a happy birthday. It was one of my Ancient Greek students' birthday today, so it was a happy idiom to share. I love the idea of wishing someone "many times."
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