Yesterday, we learned with Trevor Ragan (@train_ugly) of Train Ugly. It was a great day of learning, I can’t say anything otherwise. Jungle tigers, zoo tigers, lizard brains, and so many more pieces of research and data to push ourselves forward.

But then, there’s the collective bargaining debacle that’s leading to contact issues around the state.

But then, there’s the legislative forum where our senator and our representative listened to people say yes, they’d play higher taxes for clean water and no, we didn’t want a huge tax cut for our state, we wanted fully funded mental health services, more money for education, along with various other things. And we heard them say, yes, we’ll get a tax cut, and no, you won’t get the money for clean water from a tax that was voted on in 2010.

But then, there’s the shooting in Florida.

But then, there’s teachers blogging about how they don’t want to die at school, about putting themselves in front of their students, taking a bullet.

But then, there’s the ensuing “It’s my right to own a gun” vs. “Why do you need those kind of gun” vs. “It’s a people problem” vs. “It’s a gun problem” that’s blown up on social media.

But then, there’s the collective bargaining debacle that’s leading to contact issues around the state.

So what?

Do I ignore sound research or do I ignore life?

But then I read this from Angela Maiers:

You have just been reminded of why we are indispensable and why no one can simply walk in off the street and do our work. You are in this position of privilege to do one thing like no other person on earth can do: TEACH

So, what will I do tomorrow in the face of all that negative energy?

Teach.