It makes a difference in our everyday moments how much love we feel from those around us. This is always true.

I play music when I’m setting up activities for our learning lab. I’m a dancer, and I love feeling like I’m about to be at a party.

I had a fresh thought come to me yesterday: We’re going to take a real winter break in our family learning lab process. I’m still unpacking what I mean by “break,” but I think I mean that we’re entering what will be a several months-long reset process.

I’m falling in love with reading. Real books made of paper and bound with spines, the body of their collective words actually experiencing the gravitational pull of the earth, an honest weight in my bag, pages making sounds as I turn them. Reading is now a blissful phenomenon, complete, fascinating, screen-free.