Mistakes: “Stepping Stones to Success”
In school, as in life, learning doesn’t always happen immediately. Sometimes it takes making mistakes more than once for learning to happen. I’ve been inspired to write about this after reading an essay by Errol Sowers a friend and spiritual teacher at The Stillpoint Foundation who wrote on this subject just recently. Errol calls our […]
The end of the school year is a time of disequilibrium for teachers, students, and parents. The weather is warmer and our classrooms often become stuffy and uncomfortable. Thoughts of summer fun flicker through our students’minds as well as ours making focus and concentration hard for many. Our students often become more active, difficult to […]
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Starting the New School Year During Covid-19 …
The start of the new school year is fast approaching. Some school districts know what their instructional plan is going to be; others are still trying to put it together. No matter where your school district is in this process, there is more than enough angst for parents and their children related to Covid-19 as it relates […]
You Don’t Have to be the Tallest Tree in the Forest
“You don’t have to be the tallest tree in the forest.” Those words came as a message for me from Dr. Lewis Mehl Madrona, M.D., psychiatrist, and Native American healer in ceremony the last day of a week-long healing workshop some time ago. How did I know the message was for me? I knew because as he said […]
A Time for Becoming Anew
From time to time during the Covid-19 stay-at home orders, I have had a number of dreams of two types. One is where I have lost my purse that has all of my money, insurance cards, credit cards, and most importantly, my driver’s license, my identification, in it. I search all over, retracing my steps but am […]