i sometimes wonder what it’d be like to be bubbly/sanguine…and how that would manifest in my work. but i’m not bubbly/sanguine so spending time in wonderland is of no use. i’m mellow/melancholy. i think deeply and critically and i don’t always have a smile (and smiling, unfortunately, is how some ppl indicate happiness/approachability. the bubbly/sanguine…
Author: wordhabit
together
sometimes my students confirm my struggles, not because they’re causing them but because they’re experiencing them, too. more often than not, it’s unexpected. our age, experience, cultural norms, and basic preferences are typically different. so i’m surprised to recognize their pain, their anxiety, their frustration…as my own. and no, this isn’t the pain, anxiety and…
Celebrate
I’m supposed to take some time each Friday and celebrate my accomplishments, or should I say, the things that I’ve seen happen that I’m glad have happened this week. So here goes: I should first say that this is a hard exercise when I have a huge list I want to get through by 3pm…So…
reflections
[everything in brackets can be skipped over for a more fluid reading experience.]it started out as a grand idea: I’ll go to a retreat center for 24 hours!it became a simple and beautiful reality after not making the time to reserve a spot at a retreat center and achieving desperation the night before my scheduled retreat day….
we’ll see…
I want to take time to hash out quality thoughts on the following related to my work… Personalities How they intersect with yours (teach you about yourself) How they clash with each other How they each want a piece of the space, of you How it’s hard not become a personality-based space God How he…
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i can’t sleep. it’s a reoccurring problem of the last few months. i’ll wake to appease my bladder then return to bed wide-eyed. and it’s not that i actually feel wide-eyed but that’s how my body acts as my mind awakens to the many things i should have said or need to say, should have done or…
“get over yourself”…and other words of affirmation
affirmation = the assertion that something exists or is true.and on that note, here we go… Today began with the question, “Why?” How about that for one’s first conscious thought? Encouraging. A great preview to the day. And somehow I managed to get up, talk to God for a while, then head to the gym….