Welcome back my fellow learners

For the last year and a half I have been in the thick of things. I quit my traditional public school teaching job to try and take on a more unique education experience. In general, I've attempted homeschooling and tutoring as my main source of income. It's biffed.  A lot. It's been terrifying. Stressful. Traumatic at times. At the same time, I've learned more in this last year and a half than I thought possible. 

This time period has shown me that it is okay to be so deep in the experience that time for reflection is minimal. Which has been difficult for me as I thrive in my states of reflection. Don't get me wrong, I've been reflecting on a small scale throughout. I have security and a clarity for where things MIGHT be headed that have more brain space to promptly reflect. And hopefully start sharing all that these experiences have taught me as an educator.

My degree as a middle level educator was the stepping stone for the goals I want to achieve for education. 

It has been hard to not have the drive to write on this blog. It has also been hard to build the nerve to come back on to this platform as well. 

I was so dedicated for so long, daily entries giving perspectives on learning, education and life. Then to disappear for a long period can come across like I have given up. Maybe I thought I had.

But what I think has been going on is I've been experimenting, exploring, uploading data that I have collected. And it's the season of sharing that data. 

Life runs in seasons. Some seasons are your typical 3 month cycles. Some seasons last much longer. That's okay. There is no rule to describe how long you will be in the state you are in, all that is true is this: Change is inevitable. Growth is achievable. You decide though how you embrace it or how you fight it. Either way, a season will eventually fade into another.

I'm realizing that it's a part of my journey to have felt like I was living in fight or flight for a long period. There were lessons I needed to learn, adversity and strife I needed to face in order to get where I am today and wherever I will be in the future. 

As I find land again, as well as a voice, the message and impact "Option Ed" still resonates. If anything it's been further enhanced. Option ed. Education is optional. What?!?!

Yep. The way we educate is optional. Therefore options and alternatives to the systems in place for hundreds of years.

Option ed. Alternative ed. Education for the development of a person in a society fit for the people we are. Not for the systems we as humans don't actually fit into.

All to say, Welcome back. I am back. Let's see where this leads.