Tuesday, May 15, 2007

silver lining

Today sucked! I feel that I let down every component of my community in one way or another, I taught poorly, I reacted to stress in non-constructive ways, and I really upset my wife.

On the bright side, I was admitted to the U Mass writing project for this summer. Too bad the rest of the day was so bad that it really tarnished my joy in this.

2 comments:

EmilyG said...

Robert Louis Stevenson wrote a prayer that Y and I just love. It's titled "At Morning," and it asks that at the end of the day we be brought "to our resting beds weary and content and undishonored." Some evenings we sigh contentedly and say, yes, today I am weary, content and undishonored. Some evenings we find we've fallen far short of what we'd hoped for ourselves. But there is always the opportunity to start the next day with a clear intention to do our best.

Much love, and hopes for a better day!
Emily

Anonymous said...

Hope things are getting better, Dan! We await the next instalmant with bated breath.