Stars align

Even though I'm bad at prioritization; it worked out ok this time!

Writing this from Brugge, Belgium on the way home to Kenya after 2 months in the U.S. — in transition again. Tonight I’ll be staying in my 12th dwelling (another hotel) since I left Kenya on May 26th. 

Aside from that – a plain statement of fact – I won’t complain. I spent today biking with my girls and Eric along canals and through the Belgian countryside. Now they’re watching the Olympics and adjusting to a new time zone and I’m out writing at a cafe, eating a margherita pizza and drinking an Aperol Spritz. It all feels decadent. I’m grateful for this softer transition and some space to process and move back to the routine we had established in our Kenyan home — and never found during our summer in our U.S. homes.

An awkward ride full of giggles on a bike I had a very hard time controlling.

Something you may not know about me is that I am exceptionally bad at prioritization. This doesn't look like me not getting stuff done; it looks like me working a lot. “It’s all important,” I tell myself, even as my rational brain disagrees. 

As one concrete example of this struggle, right amidst my only-constant-is-change summer (see this summary), I foolishly pitched a piece about teachers connecting to nature for their own wellbeing – and parlaying those strategies into their pedagogy – to Edutopia’s online magazine. 

While my timing for pitching (and writing) this piece was problematic, right now I’m feeling pleased with late-June-into-July Becca and grateful to editor @Brittany Collins for her timing pulling this across the finish line and into publication. 

This week, please hop over to Edutopia to read my piece Nature-Based Learning Routines for Teachers and Students. Share it with a teacher you know. 

It’s less personal than what you usually get here. And, I’m grateful for aligned stars.

❤️,

Becca