'You can never hold back Spring'

I quote Tom Waits here, because this week will be much about planning for teaching in the spring term. Seasoning is one of the beauties of the teaching profession - it is like your body knows, just like a farmer's body knows: now is the time for cultivating the soil, getting ready for sowing the seeds. But - to stay in the farmer metaphor - also we are close to harvesting the fruits of our work in the autumn semester, so in sum: teaching and planning for teaching is the headline of this week.