Today was my first day back to work, but the "back" part is what I took for granted. I'm not the vice principal anymore; I have a new job I have barely tried out. I was back in the same place, but in a new office and new role. Today was my first day as principal of the high school, almost three months into the school year.
I described it as feeling as if I were a stone thrown into the middle of a river. The water is flowing around me, and I'm wagging my head around in wonder. I'm used to going with the flow from the origin, the mountaintop, but today I started midstream. What's my school--even by virtue of being the very school I graduated from--feels oddly unfamiliar right now.
I'm anxious to get to the part where I know. It's a strange dichotomy to feel like I both know so much and so little. And I don't think I've ever felt so humble. I'm humbled by this experience of motherhood the third time around, by watching my family adjust and embrace our newborn and new life, by a new job I'm honored and still a bit incredulous to have, by the unflagging love and support and faith of our friends and families which come in so many forms.
Tomorrow I will be armed with a tiny bit more knowledge and experience and maybe? a little more sleep?
Perchance to dream...
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