September: Make A List
September of 2020 finds us aching for the normal helter-skelter back-to-school routine: the last-minute dash to Target for colored pencils and jeans long enough to cover our kid’s end-of-summer new height; fall sports creeping onto our calendar, their gear creeping into the minivan, the mudroom, and the rug just inside the front door; shiny school supplies labeled in shaky second-grade print all packed into a backpack whose zipper might just last one more year.
Instead, many of us find ourselves surrounded with what amounts to a “new normal”: Chromebooks scattered across the house in various states of log-in to virtual classrooms; a pile of clean masks for our children to grab on the way out the door to become students; a continuous sense of forgetting something — or everything — permeating our days that look so different, yet much the same.
As we enter September surrounded by school supply lists and to-do lists and grocery lists and anti-racist reading lists, let’s make a different kind of list for ourselves.
Your list could be simple: “What do I want to remember about the here and now?”
It could be aspirational: “What do I want to learn this year? Who do I want to become?”
It could be funny: “Twelve things I’d rather do than homeschool my children (#1: Become an alligator farmer).”
And, in keeping with 2020, it could be sad, unexpected, paradoxical, or even angry.
What kind of a list does your soul need you to make this month? Write it down, and share it with us.
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