New Room New Beginnings in Everyday Ramblings

I was walking through downtown last Saturday thinking about this picture I took at just this time of year a few years back. It is a working of time on things photo but I also very much like the lines and texture here with the bare tree as an anchor. This is the side of a building, the one with the red window coverings in the old rotting window frames that has since been renovated. I was looking at the renovated building. They did a good job and I am sure it cost a fortune but as something is gained (a functional building), something is also lost.

After much gentle prodding I finally got a contract for the classroom to teach my public yoga class in starting next Monday. Just a few blocks away from the buildings pictured it is a new ecologically focused building with floor to ceiling windows in all the classrooms. A private school rents part of it during the day and the fee I have to pay involves the sextons clearing the room for me and then putting it back. It will be nice to not have to do that myself.

The room has a carpet so it is less than idea for that reason but I do feel good about supporting the building and it is wonderfully centrally located and easily accessible by all sorts of public transportation. I am very excited about having those windows as the days get longer. I can always incorporate something about the light in my teaching.

Now all I need is students!

One of the guys in the couple that promised to come has been ill so he is probably a no show for the first week. I haven’t had anyone in my Caregiver classes for a few weeks and although I have interacted with the caregivers before and after there have been all sorts of circumstances making it hard for them to get to the class. We lost our volunteer coordinator and are transitioning to a new one and things have been a bit inconsistent with volunteer coverage.

I really want to teach.

There are mass quantities of people, hundreds and hundreds doing things is the buildings on Monday nights with choir practice and Women’s Circle and meditation groups and the hand bell chorus and… So I just need to tap into that.

Ever since I brought Carlo and Diego home I have been concerned about them crowding the outside doors. They are both chipped and licensed but I haven’t managed to get collars for them yet with names and phone numbers.

I’d had a bit of a trying day at work yesterday (Mrs. Quill is making her move to poach St. Joe from me and is gaining some traction) and when I came home, my hands full of computer and water bottle and just opened the door a little Diego made his move. He leapt straight up and over my laptop bag and rushed towards the big outside door. Luckily my apartment is a group of six in a small building with its own outside door and that door was closed. I managed to get my door closed so Carlo wouldn’t get out too.

And then chasing and praying ensued. He made it up to the third floor hall for the third time before I was able to capture him.

Just, and I mean just, as I managed to get him back inside my place the outside door opened.

The gods were beneficent and smiled on our little mixed species family that is for sure. For this I am grateful.

Diego got over it all way faster than I did. I certainly hope he doesn’t think this is a new game.

I finished reading the Alan Cumming book last night. It reads like a thriller and I was having trouble putting it down. Definitely a recommend. The subject matter is dark but it is presented in this remarkably compelling way.

Okay, off to finish my work day, keep the cats inside and get cracking on marketing my class.

Last updated January 09, 2015