2020 Reflection:
This post was first published on Saturday, October 5, 2013 - ten years ago, today. Initially, I would draw a variety of samples from the day's lectionary readings. I would seek the common theme, or if there were none, then find a way to connect them all together. At first they would simply be called "Reflectionary," followed by a Roman numeral, in sequence.
It's remarkable, how it all reads, with the experiences of the past ten years behind us. Since writing it, both of my daughters graduated high school and college (one earned a Master's Degree). One is getting married in two weeks.
Obama finished his second term. Trump served his one. And then 46 held the Oval Office.
I became a full-time building substitute teacher. My Dad died. I had exciting long-term substitute jobs in the Michigan Virtual Charter Academy (on-line), as a Dexter Schools long-term Band, then Choir sub. I held a regular permanent teaching job in a private school, briefly. I taught in Perry Schools for half a year.
The Hudson Music Center grew rapidly, to revenues topping $100,000 in 2020. But then under the weight of lockdown excesses, it reduced itself back to pre-2012 levels.
I had the normal experience with catching whatever bugs were going around, every year.
I came to terms with the Anderson case, and probably the Nortel case in my professional career.
Ten amazing years. As good as my childhood was, then college, and then the first fifteen years of my career, still the 2010s up to the present had many of my best moments.
But the world . . . in looking at my thought ten years, has continued rapidly down the spiral that I described then. I can only imagine the world . . . in 2033.
