This has been a tough week. It's stress and anxiety producing enough just to be parenting in this day and age, and for most, keeping up healthy co-parenting relationships. Then we have the pandemic, and its by-products: concern or worry for the health of your family and loved ones, financial/housing/work...insecurities. In the education realm, all who are involved, teachers, staff, students and families, we are grieving the normal beginning of a school year, missing the face to face connections, loss of our classrooms to the virtual world with all the challenges, and parents simultaneously home schooling and attempting to work. Let's add the political climate with the upcoming election, disagreements that arise in every direction, inequalities and the unjust systems. We can't forget the racial awareness that is now at the forefront of the nation's conscience that has resulted in daily protests in this country and the need for change. On top of everything else-- Fires.