Welcome to my balancing act

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Welcome to my balancing act. | My name is Collin Varney. I write, and I’m a high school English teacher of 11 years. Each pursuit fills me up in ways the other can’t. I love—and need—both. Although these worlds overlap in unique and unexpected ways, teaching is my job. I chose a profession of service, and my students deserve the committed, passionate me that chose it. I’m proud to say they get that. But teaching can easily claim too much of myself, so I try to stay cognizant of when I need to adjust. "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will control your life and you will call it fate" This quotation from Carl Jung is one of my favorites (and one I frequently share with students). It urges us to take action, but

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