Week 3 - Blog Comments # 2

Week 3 Reading: Living in the Present Moment
Sabrina Giroux writes:


Photo by: Sabrina Giroux
This month has been one of the most stressful since beginning this program. FCAT pressure is on, my oldest daughter is getting ready to go to college, and I'm spending spring break in Manhattan. That, with the pressure of writing a paper has me feeling very resistant to my present set of circumstances.

The Art of Possibility has been a pleasant book to read, but it's still one more thing I have to do. Until The Seventh Practice. I feel like this is the chapter that was written for me at this time. I have been having a hard time dealing with the way things are. I have not been present without resistance. Consequently, I am not enjoying life right now, which isn't really like me at all. Reading this chapter brought me back to reality just in time. I have one month until I have a master's degree! My daughter is going to college! I'm staying in Times Square for five days! These are things I should be celebrating. Instead I have been wrapped up in how I shouldn't be going to New York...I don't have time to go to Orlando this weekend...I hate writing.


Thank you Zanders for shaking me into the present just in time. Tonight while I'm in The Hogshead drinking Butterbeer with my daughter I will be fully present with her. While we walk around the UCF campus tomorrow absorbing what college life will be like for her my only thoughts will be how proud I am of her and how much I am going to miss her. My publishing/leadership project will get my full attention when it's time for that, and it will get done. And, when I am in New York I will be fully present every moment accepting the way things are, and giving my full attention to the details of the moment whatever they are.

I Comment:
Oh my dear, you said it better than the Zanders for me. Let me see if I can make the shift from there is no way I have time for 7 days in Ethiopia, getting my emergent english speakers in the UAE ready for the grade three international standards test is impossible, dealing with heartbreak is ripping me apart. Hmmm, I will provide time in space for masters and explore Ethiopia with the depth I have always dreamed of, my students are ready to show what they CAN do, ... heartbreak ... still too messy to shift out of, lol.