Post date: Jan 12, 2018 3:19:26 AM
Today, you finish up your time in the bootcamp. Later on today, I'll be returning for a two hour discussion/workshop intended to help you reflect on the work you produced this week and look toward the semester ahead.
This morning and early afternoon may be a time when you work on the last of tasks you intend for this week. You may find you've added tasks or have begun to look out of the corner of your eye at the semester ahead.
I've been listening to a book lately and the writer, Tara Bennet-Goleman, used the image of boats moored in a harbor. She observes that gradually, the boats all point in the same direction.
As we are moored to an academic schedule, eventually, we find ourselves pointed toward a change in the time we have even before we're through with the time we have right now. Some of our commitments may be continuous, such as a full time job and the commitments of care that are in our lives. But an academic schedule has odd contours. It has its routines, but also sudden demands, little crises, and of course, it bunches up in places, like when a stack of papers comes in that seems to shunt aside our plans. Papers tax our energy. If we're not careful, the time we need to do our own work can seem like theft.
Still, if we you keep pulling the thread of that work through our days, you can attend to whatever form the work so that you're ready for what's possible in the time you have.
But today might be a time to pause, and credit yourself for showing up as you have this week. Well done.