Hey good friend, it’s been a loopy week. We’ve spent an excellent chunk of this week maintaining with family and friends who dwell within the LA space, and though the folks we all know have been braced for evacuation, they by no means needed to do it, thank goodness. So yeah, loopy occasions.
I don’t know if I ever talked about it right here, however a number of years again the police got here banging on our door and instructed us we had half-hour to seize our issues and go away as a result of there was a rising hearth on the hill behind our home. The hearth division was capable of put it out shortly, thank goodness, however part of me will always remember frantically operating round the home searching for Rosie (she did NOT need to go into her cat service) and stuffing Connor’s uniforms right into a bag simply in case she wanted them for college the following day. I additionally vividly bear in mind calling my neighbors, who weren’t dwelling on the time, and asking them in the event that they wished us to get their pets out of the home.
The occasions this week jogged my memory that when you may transfer all through your day by day existence in a comparatively regular trend, it’s actually a present. I’m counting my blessings, together with the roof over my head, my little household and my well being.
It’s additionally been an excellent reminder that there’s no time like the current; I’ve been that means to put up these footage that I took in Hawaii not too long ago, and right now’s an excellent day as any.
When Connor and I have been on Oahu final month, we took a day journey to the jap facet with my in-laws to the city they used to dwell in, Kaneohe. Proper up the road from their previous home is a cemetery nestled up in opposition to the mountains the place they’ve plenty of family members buried, and within the cemetery there’s a Buddhist temple known as Byodo-In. It open to the general public and in the event you get the possibility to go to, please do. It’s stunning and peaceable. Each time I see these footage, my coronary heart feels comfy.
Anyway.This week I marked my one-year anniversary working on the school. Time actually does fly! One factor that I’ve been fascinated about currently is how, in some ways, I miss working from dwelling, however I additionally get pleasure from with the ability to go to a unique house the place the boundaries between work and residential are very clear.
It’s additionally been very cool to work together with college students on their studying journey. Yesterday I helped an older woman from Russia. She wished data on taking an ESL class, so I talked to her for a bit after which gave her some assets. It feels actually good to assist folks, particularly in individual. I feel that simply is likely to be the important thing to keepin’ on with a smile in your face; being able to make a distinction in somebody’s life, even in a small manner, feels good.
One final thing. On a beauty-related word, yesterday I sat right down to placed on make-up within the morning, and I used to be completely shocked to search out I had no extra forehead pencil left. I feel somebody must invent a twist-up forehead pencil with clear packaging or one thing that permits you to know precisely how a lot you’ve got left. Anywho, I gotta cease by Ulta right now. I’d been utilizing the one from Uncommon Magnificence, however I feel I’m going to return to the nice previous Anastasia Forehead pencil only for funsies.
Pondering of you and hoping that you just’re okay. Completely satisfied Saturday!
Your pleasant neighborhood magnificence addict,
Karen
