courage
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How Will I Use My Wild and Precious Life?
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Have you heard Mary Oliver‘s great poem The Summer Day? Since I’m no poetry analyst, I’ll leave you to read it for yourself. The poem has inspired joy and reflection for me. For example… I used to feel guilty about not gardening, or painting, or odd jobbing it around the house. I know some people really…
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Do people do well if they want to, or if they can?
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The phrase, people do well if they can, has been echoing in my head for the past few weeks. It’s a new way of thinking about others. My upbringing included the “work hard and don’t complain” belief. One of its underlying messages was that people do well if they want to. That meant if you didn’t do…
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Up the Ladders and Down the Snakes
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My siblings and I loved Snakes and Ladders. Zooming up and down the board was fun. You would land on the ladder and advance, only to find the snake, groan, and slide back down. It’s a simple game with parallels to life and learning. I thought about this game at a recent training session for Adaptive…
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Courage and Me
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I can be a big scaredy cat. The usual stuff scares me: high cliffs, bad turbulence, near accident misses. I have a few other fears too, like those big creepy crawly bugs with tons of legs. Ugh. If you have a couch handy, maybe I could share the rest of my neuroses sometime! But I’m…