So fellow travelers, navigating major highways in heavy rain requires a kind of intense focus which you don’t realize is exhausting until you arrive at your destination. It’s an apt metaphor for the level of focus and energy my job has required for several weeks now. Often at the end of the day I arrive […]
All posts for the year 2018
Make a Joyful Noise
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on May 28, 2018
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Birds Before Bennington
So fellow travelers, this weekend’s road trip planned so many weeks ago evolved into something much more than expected. As I prepared for the concert road trip, birding reports of returning migrants long delayed by April’s record setting cold began showing up in my messages. Even though I did not register to bird for this […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on May 21, 2018
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Verdi in the Woods
So fellow travelers, cool overcast conditions have not dampened the enthusiasm of songbirds this morning. Sipping tea at the kitchen table of a favorite AirBnB I’m focused on the serenade echoing from the woods behind the cottage. It’s a glorious chorus of melodic phrases, punctuated by bright chirps and an occasional bass riff by a […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on May 20, 2018
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Seismic Shifts
So fellow travelers, five weeks to go in the final stretch of this school year. Like marathon runners “hitting the wall” going into the last quarter of the run, our team is digging deep to find the energy and willpower to see this through. Resources depleted, we keep each other refueled and focused as best […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on May 19, 2018
https://dhrahalski86.com/seismic-shifts/
Perspective
So fellow travelers, on the road this weekend again and I’m struck by the picturesque contrast of bright spring greens against stark hillsides. Persistent rain and swaths of fog veiled the views in light too flat for decent photos but I did catch one image at a rest stop on the way to Philly for […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on May 12, 2018
https://dhrahalski86.com/perspective-2/
Distant Light
So fellow travelers, much of what has come when writing has been a litany of complaints. Cold, wet weather. Heavy grey skies. A dismal monotony of ongoing stress. Nothing to post because doing so would validate the dreadful waste of precious time my days at work have become. Being required to attend yet do nothing […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on May 8, 2018
https://dhrahalski86.com/distant-light/
Art Class
So fellow travelers, making space in my days for creative time has become an essential element in my practice of stress management. There are other aspects in my plan including trail walks (weather permitting, which it has not for far too long into what should be Spring), yoga, meditation, and periodic end of the week […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on April 19, 2018
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Desperately Seeking Spring
So fellow travelers, mindful of the childhood lesson “If you can’t say something nice, it’s best to say nothing at all,” I’ve been silent here. Truth be said I have little which is positive I could say about work, this creative funk or lack of trail walking due the weather. There was this moment on […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on April 18, 2018
https://dhrahalski86.com/desperately-seeking-spring/
Rejoice
So fellow travelers, this Easter Fools morning greeted me with a joyous serenade. Sweet notes, bright enough to wake me just before dawn. As I watched Light gently transform the last shadows of the night through the window I caught a glimpse of orange as the solo songster flew off towards another tree. So clear […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on April 1, 2018
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The Twenty-first Crossroad
So fellow travelers, people often speak of kids growing up “in a flash.” That has not been my experience as a parent. The passage of three decades from the birth of our first child to this moment of Favorite Youngest Daughter reaching adulthood has felt more like a marathon, one I ran far more willingly […]
Posted by Deborah H Rahalski on March 10, 2018
https://dhrahalski86.com/the-twenty-first-crossroad/