December 15 , 2022 /

DAY FIFTEEN – MEASUREMENTS

In this Bold Experiment of 30 days of short posts looking inward with our thoughts, we are today half way to the goal. Whether or not we will make it remains to be seen, TBD, the double entendre of “to be determined.” We have many kinds of tools, techniques, skills and instruments for measuring things

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December 11 , 2022 /

DAY ELEVEN – CHOICE CONSEQUENCE

Over 85% of adolescents believe that consequences can only be negative, undesirable and to be avoided.  When I explained that it’s possible to have a good consequence, students thought that was an oxymoron or a contradiction of terms.  Consequence is synonymous with result and depending on the choice, the consequence can be either positive and

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December 10 , 2022 /

DAY TEN – TIME

  Think of many of the ways people speak about time.  “I didn’t have time to do it.”  What they mean is they did not choose to take the time to do it, whatever “it” was, but who is going to say that they chose something else?    How about this?  “It’s time to eat.”  It

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December 1 , 2022 /

A BOLD EXPERIMENT

I have been posting a blog approximately every week and have been doing that many years.  Starting today, December 1, 2022,  I am going to try and post a blog every day with the theme “A Month’s Journey Inside.”  I may or may not be successful but I believe it’s worth giving it a good

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November 21 , 2022 /

THANKSGIVING TO THANKSLIVING

Making a transition from giving thanks to living thanks is a short walk across the bridge.  On one side is where we give thanks, say thanks, and show gratitude for that which has been given to us whether material gifts that can be seen and felt, or friendships and love, which we cannot hold in

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October 26 , 2022 /

WHERE IS YOUR MIDDLE?

There are many kinds of middles as well as middling.  We often think of middle as that which is in between one end and the other.  We have the middle child, we are almost at the mid-term elections, halfway through the four-year term of a President and a mid-life crisis happens somewhere between ages 40

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