Nearly Done

I am nearly done with this semester, and am looking forward to a break...this has nothing to do with my students, current and former (several of whom have found their welcome way to this blog), but because I have not had a real break from teaching since around this time last year. There is a point where one really has to recharge from all the energy it takes to be an effective teacher (and I frankly thought I was at about 20 percent of my capacity this semester due to the enormous work of grieving my losses).
I have some grading and a day where the faculty reads the composition finals, but that's about it.

I know I will be preparing for my next semester during the break, but I plan to just rest up, get to my yoga class more often, and really think about what I want for next semester, as a teacher and a writer. What I am losing, more and more, is the terrible frantic sense that I am running out of time because my sister ran out of time. Even from something as terrible as losing a sibling, I can walk out and say, "My life is mine."