I wouldn't be able to make it through this craziness if it weren't for your daily letters. Thank you for helping to parse these events and place them in historical context.
I wouldn't be able to make it through this craziness if it weren't for your daily letters. Thank you for helping to parse these events and place them in historical context.
And for those of us in the room who live abroad, these Letters from an American have a special resonance. Cut off as many of us are from regular conversation with other Americans, these Letters feel very personal: they are an emotional and intellectual lifeline to our home.
And finally, they are letters – and how many of us take the time and thought required to compose letters anymore? How blessed we are that this wise and thoughtful person, a Professor of History no less, sits down each night to write us these letters often accompanied as they are with photographs of the Maine coast – a place that for this expat, evokes memories of picking blueberries in a field on a warm summer day, or paddling in the icy waters of that stunning rocky coast at dawn, as close to heaven as I can imagine.
Agree! We have sailed the coast of Maine since 1996 and enjoyed a vacation home in Rockport for seven years. It is heaven on earth! We have not been back via land since 2015. Next weekend I’m treating my husband to a very special weekend hiking our favorite trails in Camden, Rockport, and Bar Harbor in celebration of a milestone birthday! The exciting anticipation will buoy me through the upcoming week of orientation as we welcome back our hybrid cohorts, by class, this week.
New protocols, one way hallways, grab and go breakfasts and lunchs, assigned seating, new staff and teacher assignments are all in store for these 700 high school students. I sure hope they can see our smiles behind our masks and feel the love in our hearts as we welcome them back! Our high school community needs their energy!
I wouldn't be able to make it through this craziness if it weren't for your daily letters. Thank you for helping to parse these events and place them in historical context.
You said is well, Kate.
And for those of us in the room who live abroad, these Letters from an American have a special resonance. Cut off as many of us are from regular conversation with other Americans, these Letters feel very personal: they are an emotional and intellectual lifeline to our home.
And finally, they are letters – and how many of us take the time and thought required to compose letters anymore? How blessed we are that this wise and thoughtful person, a Professor of History no less, sits down each night to write us these letters often accompanied as they are with photographs of the Maine coast – a place that for this expat, evokes memories of picking blueberries in a field on a warm summer day, or paddling in the icy waters of that stunning rocky coast at dawn, as close to heaven as I can imagine.
Agree! We have sailed the coast of Maine since 1996 and enjoyed a vacation home in Rockport for seven years. It is heaven on earth! We have not been back via land since 2015. Next weekend I’m treating my husband to a very special weekend hiking our favorite trails in Camden, Rockport, and Bar Harbor in celebration of a milestone birthday! The exciting anticipation will buoy me through the upcoming week of orientation as we welcome back our hybrid cohorts, by class, this week.
New protocols, one way hallways, grab and go breakfasts and lunchs, assigned seating, new staff and teacher assignments are all in store for these 700 high school students. I sure hope they can see our smiles behind our masks and feel the love in our hearts as we welcome them back! Our high school community needs their energy!
Your hike sounds wonderful. I've never felt so energized as when hiking in the Maine woods ... there is magic among those trees.
Enjoy the hike and the kids at school - not to worry, they will see the smile in your eyes.
Edit function, please. You said "it" well, Kate.
Totally agree!
Amen!