But I hope that you didn’t take my latest post too much as a critique of you. It was as much a critique of my own tendency to go to extremes as anything else.

And, to be clear, I DO think there is a place for extremes. They can clarify our thinking and force us to face our biggest misconceptions and poor assumptions. You have been a tremendous influence on ME in terms of getting me to wrap my head around those extremes.

I do love school, but really that’s because I was blessed with so many wonderful teachers who, I’m willing to bet, share a lot of the amazing gifts that you have in the classroom.

I don’t know. I guess I’m still trying to come to terms with my own contradictory feelings about all of this. But mostly, I just want to say you inspire ME all the time.

Do you want to know something? What you wrote about me is a mirror back to you, you amazing human being!

Yes, they are mine. I spend a lot of time looking at birds wherever I am. We are trying to turn our land into as bird-friendly a place as possible, timing our haying to the meadow birds’ nesting schedule, keeping the copses, planting gardens for the birds…and they give me these photos.

~bg

Here’s to women, and to your life of continued journeying.

bg

Thanks for the links to some other things that swallowed up two hours of my time but which intrigued and opened my mind to surprising things.

Now back to work, as it were.

cheers

g