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365 Grateful: Michi-chan
Clean work desk. Yes, those are colour-coded and size-ordered stacks of stickies on the right side of the image. Tonight, I am grateful for Michi-chan, a student of mine from Japan. I taught her English a year and a half ago and she is possibly the cutest kid ever. She’s bubbly, athletic, smart, and sweet all at once. Today, we match. I had a little argument with a set of stairs and the stairs once, so my left knee is in rough shape. Unfortunately for Michi-chan, this makes us twinsies. She’s been out of soccer for most of the season because of a left-knee injury. Even though it’s been a…
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So, after reading roughly 3,000 handwritten pages of my own writing I have come to several conclusions. 1. I was WAAAAAAY more knowledgeable at the age of 11 than I thought I was. At 11 I had connected the fact that trauma and abuse leads to alcoholism. Now, as I grew up in Seattle during the 80s and 90s, maybe its not such a stretch that I understood addiction, but I don’t remember really understanding alcoholism at the time. So far as I remember I thought of drugs and alcohol as two separate things. 2. My handwriting changes with the wind, time, thought, and mood. I had handwriting so perfect…