Emotional Incontinence

This stretch of the pandemic has been a lot it seems.  I have given up social media in an attempt to approach life with intention and minimize time squandered, however it still seems that the days end with no real sense of accomplishment or achievement.  This was the first week that high school teachers returned to our school buildings, which has also been a source of complex feelings and overwhelm.  It seems as if the little things that I could count on to prove that I’ve accomplished something; reading a chapter in a book, writing in a journal, getting in a good workout; have also vaporized leaving me feeling like I’m failing.  My days are spent alone in a freakishly cold, sterile room, zooming with the very same students I was seeing from the warmth and comfort of my home office.  I have felt stuck.

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