It’s interesting doing half-splits and being asked to think about forgotten superpowers.
The sensation is not unlike hearing keynote after keynote, at Teachers’ Convention, express their methods of tapping into various superpowers. Me, relating or attempting to relate, all the while.
My superpower right now is surviving. It was my superpower just over five years ago when I started teaching, and it’s my superpower now as I start a new position and finish off a second degree. My superpower is overcoming restlessness. Mortgage, permanent contract, hundreds-of-pages-of-reading restlessness. My superpower is balancing. Finding anything in the midst of total disorganization. It’s biting my tongue. It’s calmly responding to e-mail and even more calmly responding to student altercations. My superpower is making time for something outside of both school realms when I know I don’t have time for anything outside either realm.
BUT, I’m forgetting some.
My superpower is also taking on adventure. It’s listening. It’s having heart, sharing, being honest, and laughing.
My superpower is also being goofy. It’s trying. It’s doing new things and getting over old things. It’s connecting eyes, rolling eyes, and ‘I think I’m going to need some help here soon’ eyes. It’s resilience. My superpower can be remembering obscure things, or conveniently forgetting some nutty ones. It’s finding great research, and ways to try connecting it.
It’s planning a trip; spring break, or otherwise.
It’s interesting doing half-splits and being asked to consider forgotten superpowers….. all the while, ready for a very new adventure. All the while very open to what comes. All the while increasingly confident the strength needed to finish off this term will be found; superpowers outside of strength, remembered… for all those other, just as important, facets of my life.