Category Archives: Lifelong Learning
What I Learned From Being a Listening Post
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. —Anonymous The greatest … Continue reading
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Can We Really Learn to Love the Weeds?
Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. —Barbara Sher I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only … Continue reading
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What I Learned From the Blob in the Black Sweater
This month the topic for Robert Hruzek’s group writing project is What I Learned From…People. The person who comes to my mind was actually named John Rieber, but I’ll always think of him as “the blob in the black sweater”. … Continue reading
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Is Football Really Like Life?
Football is like life – it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority. —Vince Lombardi There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I … Continue reading
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Are You Giving Yourself Room to Grow?
They are able to tolerate ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. They have a long-range perspective, so they give themselves and others room to grow. They can afford to be resilient, flexible, and creative because they are centered in their values. —#4, … Continue reading
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2007–A Year of Adventure
The picture above is of my daughter’s dogs, with two enormous bones we bought them when we visited in 2006. They looked a bit overwhelmed when they first saw the bones, but as I wrote in About Jean, they got … Continue reading
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Having the Sense That God Gave the Goose
I’ve been browsing the photos at Flickr the past few days, looking for some bright, cheerful images to counteract the dark and somber ones of the future that have been haunting my mind lately. birdyboo’s pictures of geese were more … Continue reading
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What I Learned From Sending My Aikido Partner Through A Plate Glass Window
My Friends All Thought I Was Crazy My friends thought I was crazy for signing up for an aikido class. I mean, I was never that good at somersaults as a kid, and the idea of me doing a graceful … Continue reading
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Finding and Creating New Role Models
Children learn a lot in their early years by observing and mimicking their parents. My husband, daughter and I still chuckle about the time we were at the dinner table, with Kaitlin in her youth chair. Suddenly she started making … Continue reading
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What I Learned From Being Downsized
I’ve been studying/practicing personal development most of my life, and got into stress management about 16 years ago, when my husband and I were both threatened with downsizing. It was scary, but also one of the happiest times of my … Continue reading
