A Message from Our School Counselors- May 14, 2020

 

Dear Families,

Here we are, about to round the corner into our final week of remote learning this school year. Sometimes, tasks feel completely undoable until they are done. Perhaps you and your children looked at this mountain called “Remote Learning” and thought there was simply no way you would make it to the top. Now, here we find ourselves, “making it” indeed. 

With the rounding of the corner, the summer awaits us. For some, this feels like a reprise, for others, it feels like a second mountain waiting to be climbed.  Time stretches out before us as we Google activities that we hope will fill the course of the months ahead and try to plan for an unknowable future. Our city will start to re-open, and we will find a new rhythm again, but none of us know exactly what this timeline looks like or how things will unfold, and that can feel worrisome. 

In Anne Lammott’s book, Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life, she writes: 
“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, ‘Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.’”

Together, we have navigated our way through remote learning by taking it “bird by bird,” one day at a time, one assignment at a time. We will navigate our way through the summer with the same mindset. One moment, one activity, one deep breath at a time. Through this slowing down, this day-by-day approach, we will climb yet another mountain and perhaps even take in the beauty along the way. 

We’ve collected some new resources that we hope will help you navigate the days ahead. 

Sending much love,

Rebecca and Amy 

Rebecca Igleheart
School Counselor, PreK - 3rd

Amy Gartenberg
School Counselor, 4th - 8th
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