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12/9/22 Subbing for Laura

I am subbing for Laura in her classroom. The tired, woman principal calls me in to sub. Laura has left no sub notes. The first class hour does not go well. The kids are middle school age. I ask everyone to say their names and one thing they like. The kids are talking and not cooperating. I yell at a girl who is talking.

The next session goes better. I go with the flow. Kindergarteners and first graders come in and the class plays games with them.

The next day for the first hours, a girl brings a movie she made. I have a preview of it. There are dancers in bright costumes which are flowing. She has a bit of technical difficulty at first. Something in the shape of a square (information) won’t leave the screen. I suggest, just start the movie and it might go away. It does. I feel much better.

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Polished, Shining Wood and Heavy, White Snow

(Tuesday, December 27, 2022) waxing crescent moon Pisces / tarot Empress

I am traveling down along the Mississippi, on highway 61, to my former ancestral home. When I come inside, a group of friendly young handymen show me the renovated hardwood floors. “Very nice,” I say, although it is a bit too DIY for my eye. I am ready to move on, because I have a new house, but a cyclone is coming. I suggest moving children to the root cellar. The young residents say the bathroom (that used to be my great-grandparents’ bedroom) is fine. They are probably right, because it is a snow cyclone, like the one that killed so many people in Buffalo.

Day notes:

This makes me think of our Plymouth house. The young couple that bought the house has done a few projects, including the wood floors. I never felt safe in that house during tornado warnings as the lower level faced southwest and had no concrete block wall to protect from the winds.

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