Consistency.
Something many of us want as much as currency or a walk in the park when some of us have been constrained in close quarters.
Consistency is a stranger to me. It is uncommon to many right now.
There are those without jobs because of COVID-19.
There are those who, like me from March to May, worked from home and taught my children.
In a few weeks, some parents will take their Kindergartener’s first picture in front of the school while socially distanced from others.
I will turn my head away after I drop off my son, and focus on the school across the street.
It does not matter what we experience:
job loss,
line up for food,
COVID-19 itself,
unexplained abdominal tumors,
tornadoes,
hurricanes,
or an empty Kindergarten desk in my heart,
Life keeps moving. This is the only consistency in view.
I will walk forward as a mother to my son first with Corrie’s memory and spirit. I will teach again this year.
I will keep writing the poems and memoir. Keep up my Memorial Kinder Walk.
I will take the content given in the pattern presented and teach again with the same STEAM and project based learning mindset in which I have taught for three years in an altered COVID-19 environment.
My LEGOs and books will go with me as I leave the eighth grade hall and go to seventh. I will find a way both personally and professionally with those who have stood by my side to continue to navigate the storm waters.
I have no control over the inconsistencies.
But I can control how I walk after them.
Corrie's Season 