In some ways, life returns to normal today. We are headed across the mountains soon, so I can preach and preside at Faith Lutheran's worship service which begins at 10, with Confirmation at 9. There may have been some freezing precipitation in the highest elevations, but it looks like the worst stayed to the east.
In some ways, normal life is on vacation until mid-January when I report back to campus at Spartanburg Methodist College. I'm not done with my teaching life--no, in some ways, it's getting even more intense, as all the classes that I teach, in person and online, come to a crashing close at the same time, with grades due within 24 hours of each other. But I won't be commuting.
In the time freed up by not commuting, I hope to have a bit of writing time in the next week, along with some reading time. I hope to redistribute the creative energy that is so often spent on planning for daily classes to writing new poems.
I know that I tend to overschedule myself in these weeks off because I'm trying to make up for lost time. I did not have much time off this summer, which makes my need to catch up with friends even more intense, along with my need for down time.
It's a delicate balancing act, and I hope to be intentional about the balancing.
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