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The Power of Pause

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It's October, although here in mid-Missouri it's having trouble acting like fall.  Yesterday's high was 85.  Lately, I've found myself drifting off into daydreams where I live in a small cottage tucked into the towering orange and red maple trees of Vermont.  It has a huge gray stone fireplace and big windows overlooking the mountains.  A velvety couch has cozy throws and pillows.  And it's always raining and blustery outside so I have to stay in this warm, dry room with its soft candle glow.  I have on a sweater. I'm reading a book.  I'm holding my favorite butter yellow mug and drinking steaming French vanilla coffee. It's not just the weather that's calling me into this fantasy retreat.  It's the general busy-ness of life.  School is full of endless learning targets, lessons planning, strategizing about how to re-engage this student or that one, feedback to write, papers to grade.  Home is more of the same.  Three kids in middle school means