Back to Basics

       

Lately I’ve written a lot about a local matter. It’s time to return to commenting on issues large and small.

Found on the internet over the past few weeks are several quotes I’d like to write about. Today I will select three.

The first,

“Connect with people who are excited about celebrating people and not destroying people.”  ~Marcusgill.org

What a wonderful thought! Every newscast seems to be about people hurting other people either physically or mentally. Then there are the political items in which ideological enemies strike out at each other. Rather than focusing on what we can build together, or invent collaboratively, we settle on what’s wrong with the other guy. Not very healthy for any of the parties.

How refreshing to spend time with people who see the world as opportunity and possibility. Life is given by those people and in those times spent with them. Exciting and fulfilling. With these rewards so evident why don’t we spend more time with these people?

The second,

“If a doctor, lawyer or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn't want to be there and were causing trouble and the doctor, lawyer or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job.”  ~Donald D. Quinn

Simply put, no other professional but a teacher puts up with this. Oh, maybe a group therapist would/does, but then not for long!

The creative field for the teacher is the chaos of the minds of younger people. The challenge is to bring order to the chaos and help them accept their surroundings in order to learn. The process is the gold that brings order from chaos. Together the students learn about each other and themselves. The gold is experienced not seen or touched. And then used over and over again to expand the universe.

The third,

“A perfect person

doesn't smoke,

doesn't drink,

doesn't cry,

doesn't fail and

Doesn't exist.”           

~Anonymous

Well let’s see, I don’t smoke, or drink; haven’t for many years. But I still do cry and boy have I failed, even recently! So I guess I’m in pretty good company. How about you?

March 13, 2015