Daily Card Pull – Day Eighteen

NIGHTINGALE SPIRIT

Love is all around

Oracle Message: In the darkness of night, Nightingale Spirit sings her song of love and hope, a harbinger of dawn to remind you that the sun will rise again soon. You are so loved, and the illumination song of the Nightingale Spirit calls you to a new level of self-awareness and connection with the Light.

Yes, there is shadow and darkness, but love and prosperity exist everywhere, even in the seeming emptiness of space, darkness, and a starless night. Hearken to the message, letting the music of the Nightingale’s song remind you that love is all around. Feel it and trust in tomorrow’s light renewing your ability to recognize that the spaces that appear empty are filled with love and abundance. Illumination will happen soon.

Daily Writing Prompt – Day Eighteen

Daily writing prompt
What experiences in life helped you grow the most?
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My experience with sobriety from alcohol is one that likely taught me the most. My sobriety date is August 10, 2002. Events on that day charted a course that has led the past twenty-one plus years in my life.

It was on that date that I had to admit I was powerless over alcohol and that my life was unmanageable. I was given the gift of desperation and realized I needed help. Within the next week, I was attending therapy sessions, outpatient rehab, and my first AA meeting. It was indeed a miraculous week.

I found out that not only did I have a drinking problem, I had a thinking problem. The twelve steps have given me a design for living that I don’t think I could have come about any other way.

As a footnote, I am meeting some AA friends for breakfast this morning, going to a meeting at the local inpatient rehab facility, going to my great grandson’s first birthday party, and tonight will be giving a talk at the area AA meeting, sharing my story.

David Lee

Day Seventeen Daily Writing Prompt…

Daily writing prompt
Do you believe in fate/destiny?
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That can be a tricky question to answer. I don’t believe in predestination. I think we all have decisions that are ours alone to make. A lot of our choices are dependent on thinking through the possible rewards/consequences. And then there are those times when we don’t fully think things true and once again, the results can be good or bad or indifferent.

I do believe that we perhaps have Sacred Contracts with the people we interact with in life. They are destined to be a part of our journeys,,,or at least someone like them. While we can say we pick and choose our fellows we take our journeys with, I’m not so sure that’s always the case.

I am 100% sure we don’t choose our families of origin. That, along with our native geography, makes up a lot of who we are and who we become. I love the phrase “We are who we are for a reason,,,we’re part of an intricate plan….called God’s special woman or man.”

I will continue to develop my thoughts and new ideas on this topic. It’s a work in progress.

David Lee

Another Chapter Begins….

Thursday, February 29th – It was on this day last week that I ended one chapter in my life. A somewhat somber chapter in which two people thought they had found someone that they’d be spending the rest of their lives with, but such was not to be. Last Thursday marked the official end of that saga. Tomorrow a new adventure is set to begin.

Just before winter break, the principal of the school I had worked at approached me about taking an interim position. Although at that point he wasn’t able to tell me who the teacher was, he did say it was a language arts position. The teacher that was at that point leading the class had decided to retire on March 1st of this year. I did some research on my own and was able to find out who the teacher was and at that point agreed to fill the position until the end of the school year.

Tomorrow is my first day as the teacher of record for a seventh grade language arts class. I will be working with three other teachers, one of whom is a teacher I worked with my last full year of teaching. The teacher whose place I’m taking was another teacher I had worked with during that time.

For most of my twenty-nine year full time career, I taught math and science. I have done over twenty interim positions since my 2010 retirement and most all of those have been either math or science. So I guess one can say that this subject matter is a bit out of my comfort zone, but I’m up to the challenge.

I will have to say that I had grown used to just working two or three days a week. This job will require that I work an average of four days a week and that will take some getting used to. Tonight as I shower and shave and ready tomorrow’s wardrobe, I’m filled with a few butterflies. It’s the usual beginning-of-the-year butterflies that I had grown used to, but these are in flight 3/4 the way through the school year.

There will be a period of adjustment for both myself and the students. They are more used to the routine than I am. And I’m sure they’ve grown accustomed to the ways of the teacher they’ve had since the start of the school. But adjustment and change are a part of each of our life stories and I’m sure we’ll be just fine.

Another chapter,,,,another adventure awaits. The previous sights in the rearview grow smaller each day.

David Lee

Daily Writing Prompt

Daily writing prompt
Do you enjoy your job?
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I will let my body of work speak for itself. I started teaching in 1981. After twenty-nine years, I retired. Since that time, I’ve done over twenty interim positions and countless substitute teaching jobs. I start yet another interim position tomorrow. All told, I’ve been teaching for forty-four school terms. I would say that answers this question completely.