Showing posts with label Patience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Patience. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Soaking in the Summer Heat
Well, it has been a while since I posted. There is still no news of a specific destination. I have been busy traveling the highways, visiting old friends, spending time with family, and of course eating great food! Life has been moving pretty fast in many ways, and yet it is my patience that I am having to employ as I wait for a phone call or a sign of the next step, place, adventure. Today; being the ever practical and prepared person I am, the list of the ten potential cities for future residence if I do not receive a DODEA placement is being narrowed. I spent much of the day doing research on Teaching License requirements, apartment pricing/ cost of living estimates, and looking at employment opportunities that are available in these potential communities. While there is still a month left in the notification period, I am working very hard to be prepared to follow through with plan B or C by the end of August if I do not hear anything. Amazingly, there is no worry- at least from me- as I believe that this is the right path to travel, and the path will become clear when it is supposed to. So until then, I will enjoy spending time with loved ones and soaking in the Kansas summer heat!
Friday, June 14, 2013
Still Waiting.....
June 14, 2013
Patience, it is not one of my higher skills. In fact, it is a skill that I have spent a lot of my life trying to master; to no avail. In many regards I am better than I used to be, but it is still a frustrating process. However, I find that I must be patient and wait. No call has come yet for a placement in a far off destination, yet I have faith that it will come. I have Plan A (the call from the DODEA); Plan B (Charity Schools in a Variety of Locations); and Plan C (Buy a random plane ticket and see what happens). Many keep asking if I have heard anything and the answer continues to be "not yet" but patience.... the answer will eventually change.
So I am spending my time making up for all the things I have neglected over the past few years of my life; the people that are still very important to me, but I seemed to never have time to catch up with. I am planning trips to all those cities I lived in during my 20's to visit old friends. I have learned how to use Facebook to catch back up, get back in touch, arrange time to share a meal and good conversation. I always thought I was too busy to do these things, and then I remembered something a friend once told me and a phrase I often said in my classroom. "It is not that you were too busy, it is that you did not make it a priority in your life." I should have made it a priority; so now I am. It is the people we share our lives with that bring us happiness; not money, not stuff. None of that is ever any good if there is no one to share it with.
Patience, it is not one of my higher skills. In fact, it is a skill that I have spent a lot of my life trying to master; to no avail. In many regards I am better than I used to be, but it is still a frustrating process. However, I find that I must be patient and wait. No call has come yet for a placement in a far off destination, yet I have faith that it will come. I have Plan A (the call from the DODEA); Plan B (Charity Schools in a Variety of Locations); and Plan C (Buy a random plane ticket and see what happens). Many keep asking if I have heard anything and the answer continues to be "not yet" but patience.... the answer will eventually change.
So I am spending my time making up for all the things I have neglected over the past few years of my life; the people that are still very important to me, but I seemed to never have time to catch up with. I am planning trips to all those cities I lived in during my 20's to visit old friends. I have learned how to use Facebook to catch back up, get back in touch, arrange time to share a meal and good conversation. I always thought I was too busy to do these things, and then I remembered something a friend once told me and a phrase I often said in my classroom. "It is not that you were too busy, it is that you did not make it a priority in your life." I should have made it a priority; so now I am. It is the people we share our lives with that bring us happiness; not money, not stuff. None of that is ever any good if there is no one to share it with.
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