My Daily Journal 10/20

The universe is always listening and responding - this I believe.  I was feeling betrayed and beaten down yesterday morning and I realized I had to make copies for this week's Multiple Choice practice.  I planned ahead and was looking for my document to stash in my bag so I could make copies this morning when I got to school. I randomly pulled a folder out of my closet so as not to bend the original copy (shout out to neat freaks).  Before I could place the work inside of it, I noticed a card tucked into the folds.  I pulled it out, and it was a handwritten card from one of my dearest friends - one of my people.  In it, she had written something about the amount of love I put out into the world through my classroom, teaching, friendships, and life.  I hadn't seen that card in a year and yet I found it randomly yesterday morning when I needed it most.

If we pay attention, the ordinary miraculous is all around.

Thank you for my ordinary miracles...my baby girls by birth and my kids scattered across the country in dorm rooms, my best friend who knows just what I need and when, that kid in the back of class/lunch today who almost made me choke on my salad, the particular pink that laces sunset clouds, 88 year old neighbor Joe who smokes a cigar on his front porch each day, HARVEY, and the beautiful misery of October baseball.

xoxo