Diary, tonight, Wednesday, May 26, I’m diving deep, real deep, spiritually and emotionally deep, so deep most people can’t or won’t dive there with me. A few mornings ago I cut out a Buddhist saying from the “approved” English language newspaper, China Daily, of all places. Buddhism is one of the five “permitted” religions–no 1st amendment [...]
I was pulled away from my “China Diary” by a “help me” e-mail from a student whom I’ll call Joan. She told me she’s having a problem with being happy, with concentrating, and with doing her work. ”And,” she added, “since you’re always happy and smiling, please give me some of your pearls of wisdom [...]
Diary, tonight, Wednesday, May 26, I’m diving deep, real deep, spiritually and emotionally deep, so deep most people can’t or won’t dive there with me. A few mornings ago I cut out a Buddhist saying from the “approved” English language newspaper, China Daily, of all places. Buddhism is one of the five “permitted” religions–no 1st [...]
I was going back to my “China Diary” until I read a “stopped-in-my-tracks” journal entry this past week from a student I’ll call Sarah: “I’ve never really had someone believing in me until your class. My whole life my parents have always been negative towards me. Anytime I’ve told them what I wanted to go [...]
Well, I’ve still have what I call a “Lilly hangover.” I’ve not be able to stop thinking about how sometimes things mysteriously converse. In this case it was the merging of three separate streams. First was the Lilly sessions on brain research and learning, and social intelligence by Lou Foltz, Jennifer McCricklerd, Tamara Rosier, [...]
My god, I watched and listened in awe: eyes wide open, mouth dropped, goose bumps, some tears, or even a lump in the throat. After these past few weeks, I learned that you don’t have to travel the world over to find the beautiful; it’s right there in front of your classroom nose. The students just finished their [...]
