new book

I read a Paulo Freire quote the other day and had to research from where it came ..... his book, Pedagogy of the Oppressed. I read this type of deep thinking books most often. It is why I need to develop lighter hobbies. Oh, BTW, I finished Kayla's scarf!

Well, I want to share a paragraph:

Because it is a distortion of being more fully human, sooner or later being less human leads the oppressed to struggle against those who made him so. In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create it), become in turn oppressors of the oppressors, but rather restorers of the humanity of both.


Because Freddie was spending time with Ben today, I got confused and thought it was Sunday. It is Thursday. Soon will be back to work and the routine with my family. I am getting ready. I do need a week's vacation thrown in here and there, though. February is the next one. I am also taking Ben out of school that week even though his school does not close. My current budget made way for a stay at a cabin in Bar Harbor ME - off season. Or as Kayla asks, "Why are you taking us further north into the cold in February?" I do not ski so it is not for that. I saw too many injured young people working my first nursing position on a med/surg floor at a hospital in the PA Poconos to step out in fear about skiing. I guess I want to stay a place I can afford, a place that looks peaceful, a place I have not been, and a place that requires some driving so I can feel proud of myself that I have it in me to drive a distance to a place other than Reading, PA, where I grew up, where I left, to where I was still attached, but am no longer. It is how I challenge myself to continue to grow, to hold loosely onto where it is I feel attached now.