WEll, I didn't actually come close to TEARS at work, so I guess you couldn't call it a BAD day.A year like this give a whole new perspective on formal education and its worth.

Rich and I had the big talk with chocolate last night basically saying, "Shape up or you're out!" Much to his disappointment, I reaffirmed that we are not looking for another full time kid, in fact, I said I wanted his stay with us to be temporary....he really would like us to adopt him. I told him if we did take him on as one of our kids he'd ( Read more... )

I had to move the barcalounger into the livingroom last night so's we could accomodate all the sickandpathetic men in the household. They're draped all over the couches and lounger, noses swollen and dripping, eyes glazed, brains frapped. When I came home yesterday from work it was to find the Rabbit-man lying on the hard floor just inside the ( Read more... )

put away the duct tape and cattle-prods, put away the candy and cheap plastic prizes; it's competition which motivates ittle kids to cooperate...

I'm working on meditating on appreciative joy (Mudita) now. As with lovingkindness (metta) and with compassion (karuna) you meditate in relation to onesself, a friend, a neutral person, a hostile person, the wider community, and all sentient beings (more or less). I find it easy (well, relatively) to do the lovingkindness and compassion ( Read more... )

50!!***!!???!!

Light doesn't exist without shadow. The brighter the light, the more intensely dark is the shadow. They are not separate.

I love autumn, especially when the sun shines and the leaves crinkle underfoot and the air smells fresh. . . for some reason it seems a season of hope and optimism.

Sometimes the sun doesn't have to shine

I see it in your eyes

I made Demetrius cry today in class. He was very sad because he's getting moved to the other 3rd grade classroom, there's an academic justification for it. But yegods! I felt guilty, perhaps I ought to 've really stood up for the emotional justification instead. . . as the rabbit-man says, emotions affect academic performance ( Read more... )