I have attempted to load some pictures and put up a new post for a few weeks now, but every time I sit down to start doing it, something (mainly one of the girls and their various needs) takes me away. So I'm giving myself a goal to get a new post up in the next week, so stay tuned.
This morning in a faculty meeting we heard from a teacher that recently went to a conference and brought back some interesting facts, ideas, and thoughts that she learned there. The following is from a handout she passed out to us with some thoughts that I found myself thinking about throughout the day.
Thoughts from "Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future" by Margaret Wheatly:
"People are the solutions to the problems that confront us. Technology is not the solution, although it can help. We are the solution - we as generous, open-hearted people who want to use our creativity and caring on behalf of other human beings and all life.
Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals who can go it alone.
Truly connecting with another human being gives us joy. The circumstances that create this connection don't matter. Even those who work side-by-side in the worst natural disaster or crisis recall that experience as memorable. They are surprised to feel joy in the midst of tragedy, but they always do.
We have to slow down. Nothing will change for the better until we do. We need time to think, to learn, to get to know each other. We are losing these great human capacities in the speed-up of modern life, and it is killing us.
The cure for despair is not hope. It's discovering what we want to do about something we care about."
