The End

If you don’t know, I am a middle and high school science teacher and I have been working at my current school for ten 𓎆 years now. Earlier this month was my last day at my school – I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I am making some transitions/changes in my life 𓋹 and this is one of them! I’m so grateful for the time I spent at my school and all of the wonderful students I got to teach over the past ten 𓎆 years. 

William and I are standing with a geode 𓇋𓈖𓂋𓈙, which started forming approximately 135 million years ago! While the size of this geode 𓇋𓈖𓂋𓈙 is awe-inspiring, when I was looking back on the pictures 𓏏𓅱𓏏𓏦, to me geode 𓇋𓈖𓂋𓈙 looks like the Hubble Space Telescope images 𓏏𓅱𓏏𓏦 of space. 

Nut 𓏌𓏏𓇯𓀭 was the Egyptian goddess 𓊹𓏏 of the night 𓎼𓂋𓎛𓄛 sky 𓊪𓏏𓇯 and the cosmos. Since my brain relates everything to ancient Egypt 𓆎𓅓𓏏𓊖, this reminded me of her and ancient Egyptian mythology surrounding Nut 𓏌𓏏𓇯𓀭 and the cosmos. 

In Middle Egyptian, the words for “night 𓎼𓂋𓎛𓄛” and “end 𓎼𓂋𓎛𓂝𓏛” are very similar words which I find very fitting for today 𓏇𓇋𓈖𓇳. The night 𓎼𓂋𓎛𓄛 is the end 𓎼𓂋𓎛𓂝𓏛 of the day and the end 𓎼𓂋𓎛𓂝𓏛 of Ra’s 𓇳𓏺𓁛 journey across the daytime sky 𓊪𓏏𓇯, but it is also the start of his 12 hour journey into the Duat 𓇼𓄿𓏏𓉐. I’ve always loved the words in the Book of the Dead 𓉐𓂋𓏏𓂻𓅓𓉔𓂋𓏲𓇳𓏺𓍼𓏺 and the Amduat 𓇋𓏶𓅓𓏭𓇼𓄿𓏏𓉐 so I don’t see this change as an end 𓎼𓂋𓎛𓂝𓏛 right now…

…I will end this with a quote from one of my favorite Taylor Swift songs which is so fitting for me today; “It was the end of a decade, but the start of an age.” 

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