Give a little grace…

This school sh*t is hard. Period. For everyone. Teachers... parents... students... administrators... bus drivers... coaches... etc. etc.

No one expected this. No “solution” feels 100% right or addressed 100% of the individual circumstances of all of those impacted. But got damn it. People are trying.

Parents are juggling competing priorities every single day... Stretched even thinner mentally, physically, and emotionally than they might have already been and now expected to fulfill a role, or roles, they never in a million years imagined... Kids are painfully aware that sh*t has changed... and longing for normalcy just as much as we are. Teachers - some of whom are parents themselves - are now front-line workers. And districts are constantly turning on a dime...

Clearly there is no one single “fix all” solution... but the one thing that will help us all tremendously is exercising a little grace.

Grace for ourselves... and grace for others. Getting through this season is going to require us to exercise empathy... and selflessness... something that seems to fall to the wayside all too often.

Over the past several months I have found myself so... disappointed in “us”... the divisiveness... the finger pointing... the lack of humility, humanity, and EMPATHY... Is disheartening on so many levels... but as we step into this next round of Jumanji (just kidding... kind of)... I pray that we do so with EVERYONE in mind. I’m not going to sit and pretend I don’t get frustrated... because I do. I’m not going to act like I don’t lose my patience. Because... I OFTEN do. But we are here now... and the “light” in all of this... as cliche as it may sound... is that all of us are in this together.

That in mind... my strategy for the next few months will be to use my resources... think outside the box... be flexible... and keep wine on deck. What’s yours?