Spirit
In a class discussion my students didn't seem familiar with sweatshops, so I located and showed them this documentary:
It tied together a thread in my mind, which is that being a non-consumer is a moral imperative.
Also, finishing Animal Farm with my 9th graders always gets me in an anti-authority kind of mood.
Body
I worked through a different tactic to improve my push-ups. I started with wall push ups, and this month broke being able to do a set of 100 wall push-ups. Now since I'm really pushing "against" instead of down, I'm not even considering using this as some kind of cheat to claim "mission accomplished." With me switching to modified push-ups it is going to be harder resist the temptation, however. But I will probably see it through to
My weight is frankly getting to be a problem again. I let the stress of grieving (and making up for lost time because of grieving) lead to indulgence. I'm not judging myself, but it will more of challenge, one I imagine I will not really deal with until the spring.
Mind
Another temporary casualty of the grieving process and my big game of make-up was my intellectual pursuits, particularly what I was doing on Memrise. My studies of historical dates, French, and Italian have all been more or less caught up.
In a class discussion my students didn't seem familiar with sweatshops, so I located and showed them this documentary:
It tied together a thread in my mind, which is that being a non-consumer is a moral imperative.
Also, finishing Animal Farm with my 9th graders always gets me in an anti-authority kind of mood.
Body
I worked through a different tactic to improve my push-ups. I started with wall push ups, and this month broke being able to do a set of 100 wall push-ups. Now since I'm really pushing "against" instead of down, I'm not even considering using this as some kind of cheat to claim "mission accomplished." With me switching to modified push-ups it is going to be harder resist the temptation, however. But I will probably see it through to
My weight is frankly getting to be a problem again. I let the stress of grieving (and making up for lost time because of grieving) lead to indulgence. I'm not judging myself, but it will more of challenge, one I imagine I will not really deal with until the spring.
Mind
Another temporary casualty of the grieving process and my big game of make-up was my intellectual pursuits, particularly what I was doing on Memrise. My studies of historical dates, French, and Italian have all been more or less caught up.
