Tuesday

a photo by my friend

What school? What tasks? What stress? School seems so distant.
Everything is splendid now. Sleep - check. Time for reading - check. Holiday preparation - almost check.
The best part of today - a five hour breakfast with three friends. The day was gray as ever, the mist wrapping the tops of taller buildings in the city and sprinkling fine rain all around. My friend's little apartment greeted us with warmth and candle light.  We sat around an oval wooden table in a small white kitchen. Savoring hot drinks, croissants, slightly salted salmon fillets, pâté, tomatoes, mozzarella, and gingerbread cookies we let the conversation unroll. We tried to stay away from speaking about school but it kept sneaking in, in between talking about kids, parents, books, theater, movies, education, politics, arts, sports, holidays, learning, plans, and dreams. We have worked together more than fifteen years, teachers through and through. We talked about guarding our hearts. We talked about keeping our spark. We talked about filling our cups. The clock kept ticking, We paid no attention. No hurry. Relaxed. Happy.

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I wish you all unhurried time with dear ones - friends and family, and if you need some time just for yourself - I wish you will have this time too.