Shouting Out to a Beautiful Sunday Evening, Where the Sky Reinstated What is Most Important and Put a Reminder Back in My Head

I don't like working all weekend. I have to, however (like most teachers), because there's no way to get all the work done required of us during the week. I was telling our University Provost on Saturday night that it is rare I can get out to a social event (like a play) because there's too much to stay on top of...it was a rare Crandall sighting. I also said, however, that I've been paying attention to the skies lately and they are more important than the expectations placed on us as faculty on campus. We need to remind ourselves that there's much larger EVERYTHING behind the ever day grind of academic life.

The trees are lungs. They remain stunning to me, especially in the evening where there outlines are more vivid. 

Alas, I worked all day Sunday but I did take a break at 4 to grill steaks, feed friends, and happen upon the Devon Bridge at sunset. The sky was stunning and I hopped to get a photo to capture how mesmerizing it really was. I tried. Sort of captured the essence of it all. Just beautiful. 

I came home from dinner to have five new essays turned in a week later (Ah, FRESHMAN! You'll get used to the fact that you can't do that in college). Sometimes I wonder what they are thinking - I mean, it's the first assignment of the semester, not a difficult one, and they biff on it. One even said, "I didn't know there was anything due, even though it was central to the first week's class, email reminders were sent, and (ready for this), IT'S ON THE SYLLABUS. 

God Bless. And I think the Great Whatever does, as that was the reminder on the way home. Beautiful September sky....a reminder of what is more important and matters most. 

Yet, here is another Monday. Let me get back to the list of what to accomplish next (because I didn't get to everything this weekend...there wasn't enough time)