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Today was my turn to clean the preschool afterhours. We are about to leave this school, and have had a lot of mixed feelings about it. It is such a shame, really. This place has so much potential to be something very cool. A part of us feels like we should stay to realize that potential there, but we have realized that our energy is better spent on things that directly involve our kids, as opposed to trying to weed out the roots of that school's problems. There are some really great people here, though, and it makes me sad that it didn't work out for us.
Life goes on, though. Our homelife is much better being there all together. I don't like having my time with my daughter reduced to the margins of going to or coming back from school. We all feel better being able to lean back into our natural rhythms a little bit. Well, as natural as they can be during a pandemic~
I have been wanting to get some friends and acquaintances writing on gemini, so I started translating the gemlog.blue codebase into Korean. I'm still working on getting it polished and tested, but it seems like it's ready to go. Looking forward to cultivating a little Korean corner of geminispace.
Lately my 17 month-old has been making a lot of progress in speaking, which makes things a lot easier for all of us. For the past several months we have dealt with quite a lot of squealing and squaking from this frustrated little guy who understands but can't quite use language himself. It's a relief to have him communicating verbally. Earlier he was asking to have one of his little puffed barley snacks. He ran up to me and asked for one, which he does often, but what was cute is that to make sure I was listening he first said "look look." Then once I did look he said extra gently and clearly, "puffffff."
What really surprised me is that he said thank you and goodbye to the clerk at a neighborhood shop we frequent. The man always says bye to my son, but he never responds. Today after the clerk handed me back my card, my son suddenly chimed in with a "thank you" out of nowhere. When the man said goodbye, my son said goodbye back and did a little bow :b I'll take this as a good omen for 2021~
I spent a lot of energy this last year toiling away at a dissertation that has yet to materialize. I was already burnt out on school, and 2020 pushed me a little too far. If I learned anything last year, it is that finding and abiding our own pace of life must be a priority. A part of that is actually taking time to do things that are enjoyable and meaningful. This includes taking time to take care of our health, by meditating, doing yoga, riding bikes (weather permitting), etc., but more importantly, I think, it includes taking time to make things--music especially.
So our goal this year is to release an EP or mixtape for every season. I am always writing a handful of songs at any given point in time, usually on guitar, so I have a lot to work with. But I want to experiment with processes and styles that I have little or no experience with. A related goal is to write more about music and my experiences with it. Once I start making music regularly, I'll be wanting to talk about music all the time, so expect posts about music to take over this capsule.
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