Disconnect

Today was a bit of a disconnect for me. It started calmly enough with a leisurely morning...sleeping in, time to actually curl the hair instead of putting it in a pony tail, and a nice drive to our annual office managers meeting. The hours missed at school trickled away and the more the meeting drug on, the more disconnected I felt. The lists in my head became jumbled and out of order. I needed to connect with my school and all that was going on to get ready for meetings and hundreds of kids and their families who would eagerly flood the hallways and classrooms in a few days. This time of year is usually like that for me. The rhythm of summer is so much more leisurely and free of the urges to "connect" with lists and projects. It takes awhile to get to the free flowing rhythm and the connected state of mind of the school year again. In the end, I really do like the ebb and flow, the  hysteria and unbalance that the new school year brings is brief. It always "connects" by October and then, like the seasons, the rhythm is established and I am balanced once again.