It’s interesting, how people who are not me, view things completely differently to how I view them! Well, I think so, anyway.
Case in point:
Have a viewpoint-full week yourself, dear Reader!
KRidwyn
Posted afterwards due to internet coverage, but this is what happened this week:
Here’s hoping you had just as stunning a week in your happy place too 🙂
KRidwyn
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Here’s wishing you the emotional support you need today too, dear Reader!
KRidwyn
One of the best things about being a school librarian? Buying books you love so you can share them with your students!
And at my new school, they hadn’t yet discovered the pleasures of SA.Patrick’s ‘Songs of Magic’ series. So I was very happy to introduce them to Patch, Wren and Barver, and the adventures they have… only to discover during the purchasing process that there’s a third book and now I get to enjoy reading them again, with the third book to add to the enjoyment!
Yay my life!!!
Have a wonderful-discovery-type-week yourself, dear Reader!
KRidwyn
I’m getting ideas for new furniture in my library. A colleague has these, and they’re comfier than they look! What do you think?
Hubby also finally collected his new car – 3 weeks after he was expecting to! I think he likes it – and the doggos in the back are pretty darn cute too!
And with my brother in the country, it was family pic day today.
Yes, Kiya is one of the family!
Have an amazing, photo-worthy week yourself, dear Reader!
KRidwyn
I’m getting idea for new furniture in my library. A colleague has these, and they’re comfier than they look! What do you think?
Hubby also finally collected his new car – 3 weeks after he was expecting to! I think he likes it – and the doggos in the back are pretty darn cute too!
And with my brother in the country, it was family pic day today.
Yes, Kiya is one of the family!
Have an amazing, photo-worthy week yourself, dear Reader!
KRidwyn
It’s 8am Sunday. I’m heading to the beach with Hubby and my dog Kiya. Joining us is Rex, Hubby’s brand new German Shepherd, who became part of our family at 9pm last night after Hubby drove a 14 hour round trip to collect him.
He was advertised as a 22-month old male. He’s as large as Aksel was when he passed away last year… but judging by his paw size and the fact he doesn’t lift his leg yet, I’d hazard a guess that he’s significantly younger than that! But he seems to be bonding with Kiya, and he’s also placid and past that typical puppy chew-everything-in-sight age, which is also brilliant.
And speaking of late nights, once the dogs had been successfully introduced to each other, I headed to the airport, to collect my younger brother Rhys whose flight arrived at 11.08pm. The last time he was in Australia was August 2014!
So: late night and a big day. Lucky there’s just 3 weeks left of school before holidays!
Have a great week, dear Reader 🙂
KRidwyn
I write today with a profound sense of gratitude and guilt. Gratitude as my region – the Sunshine Coast, in South East Queensland – has been spared the winds and deluge of Cyclone Alfred over the past few days. But equal amounts of guilt, as we here have suffered so little in comparison to so many of our neighbouring regions, who’ve had trees shatter their cars, their powerlines, their homes, who’ve had floodwaters pour down their streets, past their front doors and inundate their cars and anything low enough and not sand-bagged.
Why should we suffer so little and they so much? Where’s the fairness in that?
Plain and simple: there *is* none. None of this is fair. But guilt can imprison just as much as ingratitude and inaction. It can hold me back from giving what I’m freely able to give. And that is just plain wrong.
So I write of my faith.
Faith without action is dead though, yes?
So: go ACT. Sure, there’s been a cyclone. There’s been winds and rain which have adversely affected dozens if not hundreds.
And what am I willing to DO about it?
Just a thought for today, dear Reader. Have a blessed week ahead.
KRidwyn
Something I’m enjoying about being back in the library again, is recommending books and book series to my patrons, be they Year 12s or Preppies. And I’ve recommended several books to staff members too, over the past few weeks!
And seeing as I’m trying to recommend books from a collection I’m unfamiliar with, it behooves me to get my speed-reader on, and get familiar with it!
And a title I was rather impressed by, the last week: Cinder, book 1 of The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer.
Think Cinderella with a slice of James Cameron’s Alita and set several centuries into Earth’s future. And Cinderella doesn’t lose just her shoe, but her whole foot (did I mention she’s a cyborg?)… I also felt there were hints of Jay Kristofer’s Lifelike series in there too.
An interesting read; I’m hoping the rest of the series lives up to the premise!
And until next week, happy reading yourself, dear Reader!
KRidwyn
It’s Saturday morning, and we’ve finished Week 4 of term. Nearly half-way there! And I feel like I’m starting to emerge from the ‘head-down-bum-up’ non-stop ‘doing the work’ that’s been my life this year.
Take a breath.
Look around.
Take a second breath – because I can.
It certainly has been a busy start to the year. The line between important and urgent, work and home has been blurred, and I’ve made more mistakes than I’d like to think about… but praise God for sustaining me to reach this morning, this day, this weekend!
A day in which to reconsider priorities, rather than just paddle, paddle, paddle furiously like that duck who seems to be swimming serenely but underneath the surface, the legs are flailing relentlessly.
And this is where I’m thinking I’ll start. This post, which came across my feed the other week, and had me thinking about the spectrum of ‘focus’ to ‘scattered mindset’:
You see, when there’s multiple things pulling at your attention, it’s easy to do the ‘fun’ thing. To mix the ‘important’ with the ‘urgent’ and focus on the wrong thing. To allow distractions to take over, to move you off course. Or maybe that’s just me?
So today, this morning? A reset. A chance to sit back and look. And think. And re-prioritise. Circle those 5 things and – more importantly – identify those 20 distractions.
Here’s hoping for quite a lot more clarity by the end of it! And for you too as well, dear Reader!
KRidwyn