{"id":1399,"date":"2016-07-05T10:59:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T14:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2016-07-05T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T15:18:00","slug":"finding-the-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Inspired by Donna Donner&#8217;s post <a href=\"http:\/\/fouroclockfaculty.com\/2016\/07\/12-month-human\/\">12 Month Human<\/a> at Four O&#8217;Clock Faculty which I found on Twitter via Tamara Letter:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I completely relate to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonnaADonner\">@DonnaADonner<\/a> in this post! Thought-provoking. Makes me want to write more! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/iste2016?src=hash\">#iste2016<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KACIDfwyYu\">https:\/\/t.co\/KACIDfwyYu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tamara Letter (@HCPSTinyTech) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HCPSTinyTech\/status\/750284412768624640\">July 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I write a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1373\">fair<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1360\">amount<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?tag=work-life-balance\">about<\/a> living a life outside the traditional\u00a0workforce. One lesson I continue to learn about living this\u00a0life is that it flows and living in rather than fighting the flow is the way to move smoothly and calmly even through the rapids.<\/p>\n<p>I was the road warrior in June: just take a look at my reading log. I hit a high of 13 books because I discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/the39clues.scholastic.com\/\"><em>The 39 Clues<\/em> series<\/a> on Audible. Each book takes about 4-1\/2 hours of listening, which just happened to be\u00a0the average length of each of my car trips. Every day was planned to the minute as each\u00a0task had to be completed on time if events and trips were going to be successful. There was no time for procrastination. Within that strict regimen there was &#8220;work&#8221; and &#8220;life&#8221; as even my garden was part of the to do list. Weeding had to be done before I was gone for ten days. That meant a daylong marathon with shovel and cart. My husband shepherded me inside at dusk, handing me two ibuprofen as I walked up the steps.<\/p>\n<p>And now&#8230;it&#8217;s July, and for the first time in many years, I am home. No traveling, no training, even very little &#8220;work.&#8221; My mother was worried that I was going to be bored and suggested I could use the free time to house clean. I&#8217;m thinking more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1385\">Scratch programming<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1323\">Raspberry Pi exploration<\/a>\u00a0along with early morning hours in the garden and long afternoons floating in the pool with a book.<\/p>\n<p>Donna Donna got to the heart of my life when she wrote that her teaching life is &#8220;entwined with all the other cycles of my life.&#8221; She goes on:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As my summer rolls on I will honor my love of learning, my love for my family, my love for my profession and my curiosity of the world. My life cycle flows with this balance all year long. You see, I am a 12-month mother. I am a 12-month wife. I am a 12-month friend. \u00a0I am a 12-month teacher. I am a 12-month human. I <b><i>never<\/i><\/b> take a vacation from any of those parts of me. Some parts just come out a little stronger at times but <b><i>all<\/i><\/b> contribute to balancing me as a whole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the struggle is figuring out which part is stronger at any time as I tend to want to always focus on the work I do for others first. I resonated with Donna sitting on the porch with her hummingbirds&#8211;mine are at their height right now, buzzing me as I head out to fill the feeders&#8211;reviewing her notes from a summer workshop. For me, it would be planning\u00a0ahead for my fall courses and events.<\/p>\n<p>Then, I sat down at the laptop this morning prepared to put in a full morning of work and realized I didn&#8217;t have to&#8230;I could browse Twitter and that led to Tamara&#8217;s tweet and Donna&#8217;s post and some writing. It&#8217;s a different kind of work this personal reflection and community connection, and who knows where it might lead. The emails will wait; the preparation for an October workshop will wait; it&#8217;s time for the focus to be on my own learning and growing and flowing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Donna Donner&#8217;s post 12 Month Human at Four O&#8217;Clock Faculty which I found on Twitter via Tamara Letter: I completely relate to @DonnaADonner in this post! Thought-provoking. Makes me want to write more! #iste2016 https:\/\/t.co\/KACIDfwyYu \u2014 Tamara Letter (@HCPSTinyTech) July 5, 2016 I write a fair amount about living a life outside the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=1399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Finding the Flow<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[133,112,31,250,42],"tags":[427,251],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-learning","category-thinking-out-loud","category-work","category-writing","tag-big-time-blogging-challenge-2016","tag-work-life-balance"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-mz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}