Hello gentle breeze

Welcoming the blossoms

Carpeting the ground

Finally!

Relax

Inhale

Decompress

And proclaim

Yippee aye ee – I’m free!!!

It is now officially the start of Spring Break : )

Bone weary,

Depleted,

Dead, drained, exhausted.

Wiped,

Walloped

Spent and sapped.

Done in, done for

Tuckered out, too.

Broken down, beat,

and burnt out.

Teaching followed by parent teacher conferences

Rinse, repeat do it again tomorrow

Three more sleeps to Spring Break

Spring Break – longest four days ahead.

Cat puked, again.

Coffee is cold.

Running late. Sigh.

If you could encapsulate your day in a trio of 3 word stories, what would it convey?

Heavy. Laden. A weariness of the soul.

Grief – it ebbs and flows, forever in the shadows.

A whisper nearly out of the range of hearing

a heavy toxic taste lingering on your palate

a shroud that burdens your body

a darkness on the horizon that seems it will never dissipate

The soul will persist

It will rise, albeit haltingly

Hope, gradually dusting aside despair.

The past year has bound the human race as never before. We have all experienced loss of some kind. Some small, others large. A way of life. Familial routines, friendships. family. Deaths.

How have you managed the grief for what you have lost?

This Slice is inspired by Quinn’s slice. At the end of her post she asked, “What is your same but different?” It had me pondering and jotting down notes. And lo and behold, a Slice emerged. Thanks for the inspiration, Quinn!

Cats vs Dogs (can’t choose, love both!)

Walk vs Drive (I am fortunate that I live 3 km from work. I will walk if the weather is good AND I don’t have a pile of stuff to cart to school.)

Red Rose vs. Lipton (I abhor Lipton. When I travel I ensure that I bring my own personal stash of tea bags with me, lest I am faced with icky mud tasting off-putting Lipton.)

Magazines vs. Books (come on, there is no choice when I have a moniker of Book Dragon!!!!)

Spring vs Fall (Spring has promise, hope, and rebirth.)

Lay’s vs. Ruffles

Lindt vs. Hershey

Expo dry erase markers vs. Bic (get real, I have yet to find any dry erase marker that is better than Expo. However Expos are so pricey. Uggh. I am sure this is a common teacher lament.)

What would your same vs. different look like if you only had a focus on regional items?

Slice of Life is complex.

It doesn’t mean to vex.

So do NOT lob a vex!

Dulled senses

Ratcheting

Existential angst

Again

Disquiet a companion.