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Going Slow enough to Stop
Tagged with: a relaxed rhythm, fruits of a second retirement, Gold Trees, learning to work at learning, stopping
Posted in learning, relaxation, stopping, time, Trees
Posted in learning, relaxation, stopping, time, Trees
Enlarging our View — Life as Meaningful
We’re working hard pulling people out of the River of illness. How about looking upstream to see why they were falling in?
Tagged with: a sense of coherence, Aaron Antonovsky, comprehensibility, manageability, meaningfulness, salutogenesis
Posted in friends, health, Hope as a gift from God, learning
Posted in friends, health, Hope as a gift from God, learning
The Lion Dance and the Importance of Fun
Good Day, God! And a very good day it was — complete with a colorful and noisy Lion Dance at my Rotary lunch-time meeting. Noise is an important part of the dance — the idea being to scare away evil…
Tagged with: learning as inherently fun, Lion Dance, persistence
Posted in Endurance, Enjoyment, layer upon layer, learning, Persistence
Posted in Endurance, Enjoyment, layer upon layer, learning, Persistence
End of the Year Thoughts
Good Morning, God! I’m remembering a line from M. Scott Peck. It is something to the effect that A Parent Who Refuses to Learn From His Child Is Condemned to an Early Senility. That statement rings too true! Thank You,…
Tagged with: being a Very Proud Person, Pride
Posted in accepting my need for help, Being a Very Proud Person, daughters, Families, family visits, learning, Pride
Posted in accepting my need for help, Being a Very Proud Person, daughters, Families, family visits, learning, Pride
Education being turned Right Side Up
Good Morning, God! Last Friday night Kit and I went to hear Dr. Philip Pizzo, dean of the Stanford Medical School. Dean Pizzo is super bright and super articulate — information just flowed out of him. But when Dr. Pizzo…
Tagged with: a moment with God, Khan Academy, learning available for everyone, Mastery not grades
Posted in hope, learning, small meaningful moments
Posted in hope, learning, small meaningful moments
Changing my questions and my Heart
Good Morning, God! Somehow, in the change over to my new iPhone I stumbled into listening to this book again. I enjoyed hearing it — even for the second time. I found I needed reminding. Such a simple concept, God.…
Tagged with: Change Your Questions, Changing into Learners, Heart Reconstruction
Posted in a hand up, Abundant Life, learning, LOVE, Peace, Possibilities
Posted in a hand up, Abundant Life, learning, LOVE, Peace, Possibilities
A New Week — Another World
Good Morning, God! My morning work is done and I am feeling good! Both boys (young men, really) are off to school with lunches, water bottles, backpacks and saxophone. I have done my morning jog and have now returned to…
Learning from Feedback — Am I Willing?
Good Morning, God! How do these pilots DO IT? How can they fly that close and that fast? No room for error there! Our Bodies and Minds have incredible abilities, God! Yesterday in Discover magazine I read an article that…
Tagged with: being willing to learn, Blue Angels, feedback, Incognito, Incognito: the Secret Lives of the Brain, leaning by feedback, our Bodies learn
Posted in choices, Feedback, learning, Rethinking
Posted in choices, Feedback, learning, Rethinking
No sooner asked for, than “HARD” arrived
Good Morning, God! It was JUST yesterday that I was asking for Your Help, God, in the HARD WORK of learning. And then this very morning I find myself “learning” the new iLife computer program in order to transfer a…
A Moment with God 