A Guiltless Sunday Afternoon: 100 Minutes Well Spent
It's Sunday afternoon at 4:55pm. I have not opened my lesson plan book yet. I do not have penciled-in versions of my week neatly laid out and ready to go. This is not how I usually operate, and this is not how I feel when I break all my rules. Usually, panic, guilt and anxiety would be setting in. My head would be full of reproachful comments, "What are you doing? Why have you wasted a whole Sunday afternoon? You are SO going to regret this!" Teacher-guilt mode in full-on action. But this afternoon I sat down on the couch (ask my kids, I never do this) to fold laundry and decided to watch Ava DuVernay's documentary 13th on Netflix. I thought I'd sit for about 20 minutes, watch a little bit, and then get to lesson planing (ask my kids, I always do this on Sundays). But for 100 minutes I did not move. Did. Not. Move. I sat riveted to the screen for the entire documentary. I cannot tell you all the things I learned f...