This week I tried to remember to capture images that didn’t feature my cats. I was mostly successful 🙂 Week three was a people-centered week. Time was spent with friends and loved ones, colleagues and students, and then of course the strangers, sisters, and strange sisters united in NYC for the women’s march.
Sunday
Aung took me to Chipotle 🙂 Here he is attempting to eat his “burrito in a bowl,” which is exactly how he ordered it and exactly how it came.
Monday
Sometimes I try to be productive but Willow won’t let me, so I re-watch The West Wing and give her a warm lap instead.
Tuesday
Student Council meeting in my room during lunch with the seventh grade members. They are kind to each other, and that makes me smile.
Wednesday
My presenting partner, Benjy (he doesn’t love this nickname, but I’m okay with that). We got voluntold to share strategies at the faculty meeting.
Thursday
Here we see a classic Ashley face as she listens to Lu’s story and heads into the storage room where she keeps her stash. In addition to being a fellow gym-goer and my yoga instructor, she’s also my local egg dealer (Julie is the local egg supplier).
Friday
Every January my gym does a “one word” Paint and Sip, with each of us choosing our own guiding word then painting whatever the hell we want to. Amanda chose balance. I chose onward.
Saturday
I drove solo down to Manhattan for the Women’s March because it mattered to me that I was there, even if no one wanted to accompany me. The forecasted snowstorm hit hard at the end of the march and the drive home was slow. But I met an interesting older man on the subway who, after asking where I was from, informed me he’d been to Utica “to hustle.” I shook Senator Schumer’s hand. I saw a little girl with a sign that read “Down with the patriarchy.” And I felt connected to the people around me, even if at the start and end of the day they were strangers.