Groove.............

Word of the Day............. Groove.......n.,......a pronounced enjoyable rhythm, OR...... a fixed routine. Hey, hey, hey......two definitions? Well most days I could give us two or more definitions to a word. English words are very eclectic. Not only can they have two definitions, but most of them can be two parts of speech. But I'll leave that particular lecture to an English TEACHER. Which cleverly, I might add, leads me right into my particular choice of word for this day. If you're a teacher at BISD, well, darlin', it's time to head to the HILL, report for duty, man your stations, start your engines. NO kids yet, just our gathering back up like gaggles of geese, flocks of birds, litters of pups, prides of lions, or packs of wolves. It is time to get our GROOVE BACK. I'm pretty sure that the elems have already been to their classrooms doing their chart, bulletin boards and decorator things....having gone wild with markers and colors. Secondaries, I daresay, have picked up nary a marker. If we've been there, it's to start copying syllabi, making lesson plans, gathering textbooks, calculators, and other learning tools....that's how we get our groove. It doesn't matter how we get our rhythm, our routine, our groove started, it only matters that we do. It's our job, how we not only support of families, but also how we support the kids in our classroom. We all have grooves in our lives.....job grooves, family grooves, errand grooves, social grooves. We are all GROOVY....sorry, I'm a child of the sixties, I HAD to get that in....:))). Here's the thing......the point, the idea of this entire drivel.....don't let your GROOVE become a RUT. Any routine can easily do just that. Ugh, I HAVE to do this...or I HAVE to do that. Yep, we all HAVE to do things we don't want to do......over and over and over and over. Do those things, then get back in your groove......not stuck in the rut of whining about what you DON'T want to do. Whether your groove is an enjoyable routine or a fixed routine, it's yours. Make the most of it. Use it to better whatever and whomever is around you. And guess what....if you really don't like it...change it....get in the groove of another lane of life.....use your blinker....change your speed......whatever. Just remember, your groove won't last forever. Will it have changed lives, bettered your family and friends, or will it just have worn into a rut? Your choice; your GROOVE!