Ten.Two Thousand, Two Hundred & Sixty-Two

1. Day twoooooo.

2. I drink the whole glass of water while taking in the sounds of the woods. Watch the acorn woodpeckers fly from branch to branch. Look for the source of the voices.

3. I feel my anger rising and take a few deep breaths. Control what you can control.

4. Remember what really matters.

5. If we just get more of us who care, that can make all the difference.

6. It’s one thing to watch it through your phone in tiny clips, but it’s another to watch it in real-time. To see their faces when it clicks.

7. Is he seriously trying to dunk?

8. Put force into the floor. Put force into everything.

9. So much good.

10. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Ten.Two Thousand, Two Hundred & Sixty-One

1. Too hot.

2. Today’s the day.

3. I break the caffeine fast and it tastes so good on a cool Saturday morning.

4. So many things in containers. I forgot about how stressful this camera setup can be. But being on the field feels good.

5. These 5 words: “I love watching you play.”

6. So many compliments about the school and the gym. So many excited that this is happening. “How did you get her here?”

7. All of it is so worth it.

8. He says that the coach told her to stop shooting. I try to hold back my real feelings about that comment. I’m just glad she’s here.

9. This is precisely what I wanted to hear.

10. Yes, more of this, please.

Ten.Two Thousand, Two Hundred & Sixty

1. Pot of tea.

2. They look like they’re still wearing pajamas.

3. A ginger with a beard. He reminds me of a character from a TV show, but I can’t remember which one.

4. Why does everything look like pajamas?

5. This escalator hasn’t worked in two years.

6. So glad someone is saying the same thing I’m saying.

7. Sometimes these things happen.

8. Trying to trust.

9. Hammock. Golden sunset. The sound of an airplane flying overhead.

10. Tomorrow and then Sunday, and then it’s the first day of school.

Ten.Two Thousand, Two Hundred & Fifty-Nine

1. Only a few more slow mornings like these.

2. I think. Perhaps. That wasn’t the right response. I think. But thinking too much sometimes gets you into trouble.

3. The two of us wax poetically about the Olive Oil Company. He says that before he could take their picture, they made him eat lunch with them.

4. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks this.

5. I tell him that it’s hard to be the one constant dissenting voice. It’s both a blessing and a course to spot the problem

6. One can laugh about it, but it also, at some point, it becomes less funny.

7. Originality over imitation.

8. Always at the last minute.

9. More cheddar than caramel.

10. “Crunch.”

Ten. Two Thousand, Two Hundred & Fifty-Eight

1. The color of the morning light this time of year and the way it casts a warm glow on everything.

2. Water. Hot tea. A page from Skylar’s book and a cup of bone broth.

3. I can’t find my rhythm.

4. The more I travel away from myself, the more anxious I am to return.

5. Freshman orientation. You always learn something new. Am I about to be a veteran high school parent now? Am I the one who now knows things?

6. 90’s baggy jeans.

7. The answer is always the same.

8. I tell him that I’m just in a place where I realize that the time I have left with the kids is running out. Five years will go by quickly. I can sit in an office all day when they’re gone.

9. Second dinner. It’s definitely football season.

10. “If we are to learn anything, it would be to free ourselves from any beliefs or baggage or dogma that gets in the way of us acting according to our true nature.” - The Creative Act: A Way of Being