I love animals. We can learn so much from them. Their different natures and skills sets give us examples scampering, argumentation, playing, singing, industry, laziness, cunning. Years ago my favorite supervisor gave me the job of presenting inclusion and diversity in the classroom. So naturally, I thought teachers need to adapt to the different […]
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We were having a family dinner. My dad, who was 81 at the time, had broken his back in a skiing accident, he had been in a long recovery and was still feeling poorly. We had a family get-together for Easter and out of the blue, he looked up from his coffee and dessert
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We had been talking about icons, not the things on your desktop but pictures, slices of time, moments that invite you through the portal of time and space into eternity and infinity. An old apple tree planted in a hayfield now being encroached with pine saplings became my symbol for how all generations live
Information Overload: Creativity depends on having space in your mind to generate associations, connections, and seeds for growing a concept. I think trying to “keep up” with the number of details in the news and tidbits about friends and family is taxing the brain. As an experiment, I have tried to limit the time
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Treat your Neighbor as you would treat yourself. Really??? Now that’s a really bad idea. Do you know what’s going on inside this head? Do you know what’s going on inside your head. I do and most of the time it just not pretty. That voice is a collection of ideas, opinions about one’s self.
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Artful service verses Co-dependence If you happened to be one of the many people who have been raised in families where the needs of one family member demand and absorb most of the resources, time and attention from everyone in the family you might be confused about the difference between artful service and co-dependent behavior
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The Chill Corner C Lee Guerette Online Portfolio for Lee Guerette at Cognitive yoga One of the most successful strategies used for my study skills class was creating the chill corner. That corner had the ambiance of a living room, instead of a sterile classroom. It was sectioned off on two sides by books
What Begins As Protection Creates A Limitation I had been listening to a distinguished panel on the topic of prescription drug abuse by college kids. The issues were about the fact that people do not know how to talk about drug addiction in families. Frequently kids feel isolated and believe that no one feels the
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