Not about tango or yoga
What are you grateful for? Right now, my son is refusing to go to school, and wants to know why school is not designed for kids who are gifted and also learning disabled. Why can’t he learn in an environment that works for him? Good question.
I just got off the phone with a teacher who worked with my son four years ago as a home instruction tutor one of the other times that school wasn’t working. He is the the only person who really GOT my son, who can be challenging. I knew the first initial of the teacher’s last name and no first name, as all of the arrangements had been through school, so it has taken a few months for me to find him.
This teacher is taking an hour to drive to my house, talk to my son, and see if he can brainstorm any ideas to help ameliorate the situation, despite having a full caseload and working four days a week after school already. And he offered time in the next 24 hours to come meet on the porch, masked, with my teen.
I am so grateful that I am crying. In this trying time, kids have been hit even harder than the adults trying to deal with a COVID world that is falling apart and failing. We need to remember that even as we struggle with our own burnout and daily battle to keep going.
I would like you to think of someone who has helped you in the past at a low point in your life. Reach out to them and thank them.
Back to dance and yoga topics next time, I promise.