Here we go, week twelve!

I am typing this post from my new setup (downstairs from where I live). For context, my brother owns a home and the downstairs used to be his office space. It is currently vacant and he is allowing me to rent the back office space. I originally asked so that I would have more space to spread out. However, it was shortly after it all ‘went down’ that I realized I was creating the official headquarters of day.llc (wink and high fives)

This is my first blog post from the new set up.

I have a sectional couch in the corner that I inherited from Chloe, my esthetician who continues to do the hydrafacials. I am going to move back to the couch and see if I still have range from the keyboard.

(pause)

And that would be a yes, but it is a bit difficult to see. Hold on, I’m going to check the corner…

Yep. this is better. And if I really wanted to cozy up and write, I would move the monitor.

Thanks for playing along with the new writing transition! Comfort matters. Mostly, not having to look down is helpful to me. This begs me to mention one last thing: I had an eye appointment yesterday and the most helpful and relevant ophthalmologist opened me up to ‘the range’. She wrote a prescription for lenses that allow me to see my laptop screen. She knew exactly what my problem was: the space between close (reading a book) and more than a few feet away. I told her about the monitor I purchased to help me with the problem, and she intentionally set the prescription to be within a foot of space.

And that is all for the extraneous updates…

And here is the excerpt from somethingmore…

There is much I can expand on, however I will leave it at the excerpt for today.

Here is a YouTube video I created at the time of this post. We were in quarantine and I made the video for students on my caseload, but I posted it for general use because of the circumstances at the time. I mention center of gravity in the excerpt.

PS. When I say ‘kids on my caseload’, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with any of them. In the school environment, they may have difficulty accessing their academics for a variety of reasons; or they may have difficulty accessing the social demands that include getting along with others and participating in a group. When the academic and social demands exceed one’s ability to regulate, the results may be emotional or behavioral. The things that get in their way in the school setting are often separate from their general intelligence. They are awesome. They teach me how to be better – as well to continually strive to be relevant, authentic, and engaging. (I really struggle with integrating the three…I can be engaging, but not relevant to the outcomes I need to meet the job demands…I can be relevant, but often it’s not engaging – a bit boring it seems, or scattered…I am mostly authentic…so that works – tmi?).