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."
10/27: phew
Doing tab binding with washi tape worked well in class today. I used to do a sewn binding lesson, but this was a smoother (easier, clearer, faster) substitute.
10/26: 3 cats near me
As I worked this morning, Phineas curled up in a cat-bed on the side-table next to my chair, Tilde slept in the cat-bed on the floor near my chair, and Simon sat on the chair facing mine. I don't know if they were missing Emma too, but I was grateful for their collective company since Emma usually perched alongside me as I did my morning work, and I was feeling his absence.
10/24: a good sight
While Emma the Cat was having a hard morning, Phineas the Cat crawled into the cat bed with him and put his arm around him.
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