For your consideration…..

I had another beautiful “shadow” picture of a beautiful river and cliffs but I scraped it for this one. We are asked to pause for a moment. What feelings does the above picture invoke? Is is mystery, darkness or light? Is it happiness, sadness or […]

For your consideration…..

When I got today’s message, I automatically thought of my kindergarteners. I love teaching kindergarten the first week of school because it gives me a baseline for each and every time I return to substitute teach them. Each and every time I go back I […]

For  your consideration…..

This is not the image I was given but there are no coincidences so I have to believe it is the one I need to go with. The image I was given was of a bird standing on a wooden box on […]

For  your consideration….

We all get them, those random thoughts that seem to come out of no where, goosebumps, deja vu etc. Those “zings”  jump in the middle of our thoughts and what we are doing for seemingly no apparent reason. But there is a reason and the […]

For your consideration…..

Today’s message may seem harsh. We may have to sit with it….without judgment….for a minute and think it through.

We all have had tough times, hard knocks, in our life. Perhaps it was a horrific childhood. Perhaps it is  the loss of people […]

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“Like knowledge and education, experience, once earned it is ours to keep. It can never be taken away.”

It makes no difference whether we earned experience the hard or easy way, whether we earned it consciously or unconsciously or whether we wanted to […]

“Fight Song”

by Rachel Platten

Like a small boat
On the ocean
Sending big waves
Into motion
Like how a single word
Can make a heart open
I might only have one match
But I can make an explosionAnd all those […]

For your consideration…..

I substitute teach and I love it. This is a shock to many of my long-term friends and family. With school right around the corner, I am already receiving calls. This adds to my excitement and it also gets me thinking of new ideas and […]

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Unless we are ill, we know right from wrong. We know it in our head and in our heart. We know that there is a standard by which we must live following standards, rules and laws so that we have a civilized world. We all […]

Shame….

“a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior”

For your consideration….

Everyone has done or said things they are ashamed of. We are ashamed because these words or actions do not represent who we are […]