Easily distracted, not fully present. Rebuked and rebuffed. Imperfect, and dispute that unchanging fact, it is not a weight that presses down on the road to improvement.

One is running around the classroom when everyone is supposed to be sitting down. One child is screaming at another. A child points out that another child sat in their chair when they got up to answer a question and now won’t move. What are you going to do? Watch idle as it happens? Listen…

It’s okay to be sensitive, to feel hurt and vulnerable. I can acknowledge those feelings, and create space as I put my Victor Frankl hat on and choose my attitude. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and…

How are you? A precursor to everything else. Before I judge your silence. Before I assume the worst of your frown. These are all withheld until I know, “How are you?” Until I’ve opened my eyes to see you: a fellow human.

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson Yes, the same man who went off to live off the land and build a cabin wrote this beautiful sentence. Was it the beauty he found in himself while laying down…