TGIF, everybody! What a week… Enjoyable but a little busy for my taste. It was my birthday week! And it’s still not over.
I had my take-in therapy appointment and left with a bit of mixed feelings. This Meru app is more for pushing mindfulness practices and not so much for actual online therapy. The program is 12 weeks long and it starts next Monday. Every day, they push out “strategies”, you do have access to your therapist via chat and two monthly phone calls. I will update later if I like it or not but for now, I am skeptical. I struggled with “setting goals” and answering the question “what I need help with.” I think I blabbered out something along the lines “I want to grow in many areas of my life.” What does that even mean?..
L had her spring concert- so cute. It was bunnies the musical, for kindergarten and first grade students. Received R’s preschool pictures. My baby is no longer a baby but a long-legged and mischievous preschooler.
One evening, I went to the Town Hall meeting with our local district. They administered DEI survey to parents, teachers, and students and had this meeting to discuss the results. This was part of my word of the year -connection- and community involvement goals.
For my birthday, I brought an ice cream cake to work because I shared a birthday with one of my students – Sarah.
After work, I had tickets to see the Taiko project – Japanese drumming troop from Los Angeles. They were performing in Morristown, right on my birthday. So I bought a ticket and just went by myself: Daria, party of one. LOL But I enjoyed it tremendously. Why this performance? Well, back in 2023, Kodō was performing at NJPAC in Newark and I wanted to go and didn’t go. Then I was kicking myself for not going.
Taiko Project performance blew my mind, and I also found the drums to be very healing. You know how in a variety of cultures a drum is used to transcend, or energize, or calm the mind? I was sitting relatively close, and could feel the vibrations of the drums in my chest. I went to sleep at around 11PM so the next day I was, well, quite blurry-eyed.
Lately I am feeling a bit of all over the place, life-wise. Maybe because it’s May, and the end of school year is in sight. Maybe I am just feeling restless because of this warmer weather. I still have not signed up for yoga. I feel like I need to regroup and realign my priorities. So, this weekend, a planning session is in order.
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