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It’s a beautiful fall morning ripe with possibilities. The children are full of joyful greetings. Lovers are getting together; families are laughing. But today is not like any other day. Death visited us last night. Changes come and changes go. Life move on, both fast and slow. My heart breaks…

An Ode to Balance Here’s to the noise that makes us happy inspires us to work makes us feel productive Harmony and Laugher Children talking, old men walking. Water flowing, plants growing. Here’s to the noise the makes us feel alive inspires us to dance makes us feel healthy Hope…

Often, I feel that my very ideas about the nature of God and the world can be confining. The questions that I ask or my fears put God in a box. I wonder how can people support such atrocious ideas and proclaim to be Christians when the very theme of Christianity…

I haven’t felt like writing much in my blog these days.  I keep writing my fiction for it’s an escape, but I don’t want much to do with reality these days.  My heart breaks as I feel the anger, the pain, and the polarity in the rhetoric of our media and our society.  I am appalled at who and…

A small act of kindness is never small. “To be humble, to be kind, it is the giving of the peace in your mind. To a stranger, to a friend, to give in such a way that has no end.” I have always struggled with the concept of justice. I…

  “There is no neutral education. Education is either for domestication or for freedom.” – Joao Coutinho I have been thinking a lot about what it means to teach, what qualities make a good teacher, and how I’ve learned and become the person I am today. From mentors, to books,…

“First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—…

“We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or doing laundry.” ― E.B. White I am thankful to love my work and play!  I am also grateful to NOT be doing laundry or picking grapes all the time.  Thank…

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau If you don’t like what you see, try looking at it from a different angle.  As a pediatric OT, I am constantly amazed by what children see when they look at ordinary objects.  Kids…

    “TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood” Robert Frost speaks of two paths emerging and him being able to only take one path.  Often we must make firm decisions – to go this way or that.  Yet, often we have the opportunity to study multiple ways of thinking,…