Scatter the flowers

google photo-Galileo "I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught." ~ Winston Churchill   ✏ Yes, it's that time again.  Just like spring cleaning time it's the end of one season & the beginning of another.  Back to school.  I loved it (teacher/mom of 3 me), then hated it (ready to retire teacher me), now I love it again (fully retired me).  I will say that the excitement of buying a new planner & getting a chance to start over in my classroom each year was invigorating & inspiring, regardless of the stage I was in.  I found myself this week browsing through the planners longingly.  I know.  You don't need to say it.  ✏   Remember when you were a kid and you were playing a game, didn't like how you played it & called "redos"? Ever feel you just want to start over or redo?   I am a firm believer in fresh starts - for me, for anyone else. There is something about a blank slate, a freshly painted wall, people th

  The Scream~ Edward Munch, 1893 "The remarkable thing about God is when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you don't fear God you fear everything else."  ~ Oswald Chambers, evangelist 👀 I was driving my granddaughter the other day for a date to celebrate her 7th birthday, when I looked over and saw a spider hanging down on the inside of my car from the passenger's visor.  I cannot tell you the panic I had, the scream I let out, and the frantic maneuvering I did in the car to try to safely pull over before the spider crawled over to my side of the car.   👀 As I finally did park and eliminate the ARACHNID from my car, I apologized for 'freaking out', and my granddaughter said very calmly, "That wouldn't make me freak out."   Well, little did she know that Wikipedia defines an arachnid as a joint-legged ANIMAL , along with scorpions.  Maybe in a few years she'll understand the necessity of me most excellently  parking my car and