Blended Life of an Educator

Are the Signs of the Times Causing You to Panic? The other day I was greatly distressed. I had been doing research about the move of Critical Race Theory invading our curriculum in my state. Scanning through online lesson plans, seeing correlations with Black Lives Matter agendas to try indoctrinate our youth to live with chips on their shoulders, draw racial lines that will "remake" history, and redefine identity based on a child's choice of sexual preference... gave me a migraine and sent me into the land of FEAR. How could my kids be growing up in this day and age when truth is so grey? What are the standards of morality if everyone defines them and everyone is "right?" The fact that the truth, or the "right" way, is being blurred so badly caused me have a mini emotional freak out.  My husband gently pulled me out of my downward spiral into the abiss of FEAR with this quote from  Fear Factor  by Kevin and Chad Dedmon:  "Fear is the last battle ...

Isn't it funny how we focus on all that is NEW each January? It feels like it's a new era even though December 31st and January 1st are literally side by side. Our circumstances may even look the same, literally; but when the stroke of midnight arrives all is considered new. Like all that was connected to the previous year is now gone and we've moved through a window of opportunity to leap into all that is fresh, untouched, and maybe even NEW. Some jump for better health. Others look for ways to improve their finances. And many look to accomplishing things that they've put off-- projects, travel, physical feats, or even relationships.  Have you ever stopped to think about how our thought-life truly impacts how we view "our" world? It's really our thinking that helps create the popular thought of NEWNESS that rings in each new year. Out with the old and in with new. Yes, we're all born with different lenses-- very often shaped by the attitudes and moral...