This is a phrase that was made very famous by HBO’s Game of Thrones. It carried with it a foretelling of doom and gloom, despair and disaster. In the farther north hemisphere of the planet, and, I imagine, in the farther south hemisphere as well, it simply indicates a change of seasons from warm to […]
Super Hero
I was having a conversation with my step-son today about his work. He works in the before and after school program while he is finishing his teaching degree. One of the little kids said that she was getting a substitute teacher today. He said, “Hmm, maybe that substitute teacher would be me!” He was joking, […]
Distractions
I have been giving a lot of thought these days, with Covid-19 afoot, about the various ways in which people maintain their individual sanity as all of the crazy stuff keeps happening all around us. I have noticed a number of folks on social media doing things like Gratitude lists on a daily basis. I […]
Going Far
There is an African proverb that goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This is something that I have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, in my own life. I was raised to be very self-sufficient. I was given responsibilities early on, some of […]
How do We Respond?
How do we respond when we get bad news? Sometimes it is a matter of allowing ourselves time to just go into the depths of despair for a while, knowing we will come out. We sometimes have to remind ourselves that we do, indeed, have to come out of it and back into the LIGHT. […]
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