Life in late capitalism can be vexing, alienating, fragmenting, and otherwise frustrating. There are many wonderful things in my life, but I'm more likely to talk about what's bad rather than what's good. I'm going to try to post one good thing here each day, and if you would join in by adding a good thing from your day in the comments, I'd love it--I'd absolutely love it. --RR
4/11: the last day of sabbatical
Technically my sabbatical isn't over until start-of-the-school-year meetings begin in August, but tomorrow I'll be going to Pennsylvania to take care of my mother as she recovers from a surgery, and by the time I get back to Arkansas it'll be "summer" rather than "sabbatical." So today is the last day of my sabbatical habits. Happily, it's warm enough to be sitting on the screened-in porch with the cats--our last installment of sabbatical's "morning office," which became a regular practice last summer during my picturebook course. I'm sure I'll continue having morning office when possible, but I'll always associate it with this sabbatical. During today's morning office I finished reading the remarkable Skellig by David Almond and am working on some of the last forum postings for my coursework. This sabbatical year has had unexpected challenges and difficulties, but this morning I am feeling the goodness of it and am grateful.
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