Well that could be the title of my life, but less profoundly I am actually waiting to see if my request for a study sabbatical will be approved. I thought that documenting my time away from the NYC Public Schools would be, fun? So here I am.
I took a brief look at some other sabbatical blogs and lets just say I am so very grateful that this will not be a competition, because I have already lost. The pictures and the travel! The self improvement and the discovery! Then who knows...maybe I too will be a shiny, happy person at the end of this experience!
My plans for travel are negligible, for many reasons.
- I didn't win the lottery and I am bit long in the tooth for a hostel.
- I like my life here
- To go deep, I don't feel compelled to go far.
- I'd miss my doggies!
- I like my family
- There is so much here that I want to do.
I think the first and foremost that will have to improve is my photography. I have taken up a very casual bird watching interest but so far I have not capture a single good picture of a bird and some of these birds have been still and inches from me. I could just take from the stock photos and say this is the bird that I saw! This is the body I feel like I have now that I ate a salad! This is how my garden may look one day! I think I'm onto something here.
However is another issue with the sabbatical blogging competition is that my interests are fairly pedestrian. You know, family, a bit of baking, a bit of gardening, a bit or knitting (any itty bit of knitting as I'm really bad at it). In fact written out it is clear that my calling was to be maybe a pioneer or an Amish woman.
My sabbatical theme is pretty straight forward; do less of what I don't want to do and more of what I do and try to shut down the whiny, nonstop guild for not living up to an expectation that only exists in my mind that I constantly try to reinforce by the media I chose to consume to feed my guilt, which though not fun is at least familiar.
