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Creator’s Checklist
We are infinitely creative … We are busy creating the world every moment … of every day … What are you creating today? Here’s a checklist to help …
Do Grandmothers Hold The Key To Human Evolution?
Few are aware that Charles Darwin, who fathered the idea of “survival of the fittest”, also suggested that cooperation is essential for long-term survival and evolution. Click the title to learn more.
What are your words creating?
Words matter. They are the bricks with which we build. They set the intention of what is to come. Click the title to read more about this experiment that may show more than we expect about the impact of our words.
#TeacherAppreciation
No one does a more powerful job than the job we do when we endeavor to teach another.
Welcome To My Green Room
Green rooms are where performers wait before going onstage. When giving a speech, we often inhabit an ’emotional green room’ waiting in nervous suspended animation until our name is called to begin.
A Marriage of Skills
We have capacity in many skills. Narrow our definition of ‘what we / they are good at’ and we miss the opportunities that our human complexity provides. Click title for full post.
Tech Assist: Nourishing Body, Mind, Soul
I was asked to introduce a few time-saving, stress-relieving tech solutions to a group of hard-working school administrators. We started low-tech and went high with tips to soothe our souls, organize our minds, and feed our (and our families’) bodies. Click the title for post.
Breaking the Ice
So, you’ve got another meeting to plan. It’s that weekly meeting. Same people. Pretty much the same topic. Click here for something to up the engagement!
Are “I-Statements” Selfish or Helpful?
I-statements help keep the temperature down during high-stress conversations. But, one student asks, “Isn’t all this I-I-I talk selfish?”. Let’s take a look…
My Tree
The leaves on my tree start life in fragile shades of green. They tentatively unfurl pale lime, sometimes golden. They grow toward summer. Slick rubbery surfaces become verdant labs, energy pads; an alchemical mission marrying sun, dirt, and water from who knows where. Some leaves are breezy cool; blowing their rustle in bluish notes. Some are robustContinue reading “My Tree”
It’s never too late.
It’s never too late,Or in my case, too early,To be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit.Start whenever you want.You can change or stay the same.There are no rules to this thing.We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of It. I hope you seeContinue reading “It’s never too late.”
One River One Boat by Marjory Wentworth
Marjory Wentworth’s poem “One River One Boat” deserves to be heard.
Creating Machines
Sometimes, creating is an individual thing. Sometimes it’s is a group thing. What is this “creating machine” that we become?
Walking Increases Creativity
Recent studies tout the negative impacts to our hearts and muscles of inactivity. But, moving isn’t just good for your body. Researchers have shown that walking, specifically, is good for the mind. It can help improve creativity.
Repeat, Repeat, Repeat
Just a little ditty on the value of repeating when trying to plant a message, an idea, a concept….
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