Thinking Thursday
Jan. 21st, 2010 09:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krikketgirlToday, so many of the kids replied, "Bonjour!" to me in the hall. It was really neat! The whole day was filled with little moments like that, too, where I felt like I was doing something instead of just taking up space. Not big things, either, just little "kid" things--like when one girl stopping the hallway just to tell me that she's excited about her sleepover this weekend. It meant a lot with her, too, because she's a quiet one.
Last night, we got some freezing rain--not very much, just enough to put a slight coating on my windshield. The funny thing about it was that it was barely even enough ice to scrape, but it still completely obscured my view. I could never have driven the car without getting the ice off of it.
It made me think about how easily our own view is obscured. It takes so little to make the whole world look askew, or to make us blind to what's going on around us.
I don't have any magic solution, either; just a reminder, I think, that we shouldn't always trust our eyes the first time (or the sixth or seventh time) we look at something.
Last night, we got some freezing rain--not very much, just enough to put a slight coating on my windshield. The funny thing about it was that it was barely even enough ice to scrape, but it still completely obscured my view. I could never have driven the car without getting the ice off of it.
It made me think about how easily our own view is obscured. It takes so little to make the whole world look askew, or to make us blind to what's going on around us.
I don't have any magic solution, either; just a reminder, I think, that we shouldn't always trust our eyes the first time (or the sixth or seventh time) we look at something.
