happiness in strange places...

PASSING THOUGHT: Happiness may be found in strange places...Remote learning+1st round summative oral scheduled today...(Many students hadn't performed so well in the formative (prep) written task)...I felt nervous...1st speaker - clear,on-topic,v.v.well-prepared...Tears (mine)...

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 20, 2020

just stop...

PASSING THOUGHT: Sometimes, you need to take a firm stand with self + say 'STOP'. I've been working today since just after 5:00am. I have now closed my online mark book. No energy for creative detours, so I'll just recall a student playing his guitar for me yesterday + smile...🙂

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 19, 2020

10,000 trees...

A rock band, volunteers plant 10,000 trees (donated by the Rainforest 4 Foundation) on the far north coast of NSW near Byron Bay? Sounds a bizarre combination... but not impossible...In Hearts Wake metalcore band helps this NSW farmer repair the land...https://t.co/78QTT180mM pic.twitter.com/v81jBY0fYz

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 18, 2020

and a guitar played...

Remote learning was a frantic experience today...so much data...data...data...+ teaching, of course, involving extra attention for strugglers...It's tough some days...But in the midst, there is always some light...Today, a quiet lad played his guitar for me on a Google Meet...🙏

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 18, 2020

more earthquakes...

Victoria...First an earthquake at Pakenham, southeast of Melbourne, a matter of weeks ago on 29th July (a week after a 3.1 tremor at Moe?) and now one southwest of Melbourne...It's a lively 2020... https://t.co/cgNx9TR6m7

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 17, 2020

At almost the same time as the Apollo Bay earthquake tonight...this one immediately north of Australia... https://t.co/KGSLiRUOoU pic.twitter.com/JlAxzCfzQ5

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 17, 2020

beauty of iron...

A terrace house borrowing space and oozing style. Built c.1890, South Yarra, Melbourne.https://t.co/8HVyi5XmlG pic.twitter.com/7PIvbeIMcn

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 17, 2020

charity run in quarantine? ...

Pushing the boundaries...It can be done... Read to the end and the 'beer' connection... Very cute...
Man completes 60-kilometre charity run in Adelaide hotel room during coronavirus quarantine https://t.co/I01XnuAT8s

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 17, 2020

baby boom...

A baby boom...It had to happen somewhere this crazy year ... But maybe not quite where you had in mind...

https://t.co/FTyC4EwIdu

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 17, 2020

poetic void...

PASSING THOUGHT: These days, I seem to be drifting in a poetic void... I seem to be on a mission to find oddities on/in any subject... Taking mental tours in random spaces... Perhaps this is my Lockdown Stage 4 safety mechanism kicking in...

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 17, 2020

Saint Seraphim...silence will come...

From a 19th-century Russian monk and mystic... beautiful words... Saint Seraphim of Sarov...
'...Be quiet a lot, speak little - and silence will come in your heart, and your spirit will be calm and full of peace... pic.twitter.com/hcAdCnB7DD

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 16, 2020