Category: Personal Reflection
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Nature’s Healing: Finding Light Through Darkness
Oh Mother Nature, I come to you today seeking your healing for my bleak soul adorned in mourning blackness. I want to sit amongst this community of sky touching spruce trees while the goldeness of our sun plays hide-n-seek with outstretched branches and tall, thin trunks. I ask you to help restore my soul, my…
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Nature’s Lesson: Revealing Our Authentic Selves
Pure beauty of self revealed- conforming masquerade ceases. Revealed jittery candid spirit- revealed beauty of pure self The past 2 weeks have been filled with the glorious colors of the season- rubies, tangerines, golds, russets. Many times I have stopped in awe of the scene before me. The sun highlighting these colors to the fullest.…
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Finding Magic in Morning Mist
Earth’s misty gray heavens silently descend to kiss the crown of Fall tipped leaves embracing them in momentary privacy, magnifying the morning hush allowing the world to rest for a few hours longer in the delayed brightness of day. Over the past few weeks, I have encountered more foggy mornings than I would say is…
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Celebrating Life: Small Joys and Big Goals
Treasuring another year olderUnwrapping each day’s living giftSmall joy beholderTreasuring another year olderNew choices- my life’s molderHealthier, stronger, fitter- my body’s shiftTreasuring another year olderUnwrapping each day’s living gift September is my birthday month which often leads me to set goals for the coming year. After having some health concerns last year, I am treasuring…
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Joyful Learning After Tech Glitches and Nature’s Reset
Tech glitches FRUSTRATION Change math plans Walk outside Sun, sky, warmth Relieves angst Back to class learning starts joyfully. This is the tale of my day at school so far. I was in a kindergarten class co-teaching a math lesson. The students were going to be using their ipads for the first time. They were…
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Misty Mornings & Sunny Afternoons
Traffic lights offer an Impressionistic glow, Streets are darkened in dampness, Waterdrops plummet off of heavy leaves, My view is shortened-swaddled in a soft, misty grayness, A subtle, quiet calmness fills this morning ride. Warm air blesses my forehead and cheeks, Sunshine makes my eyes crinkle and squint, Vivid green leaves kiss a bright azure…
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Embracing Our Star-Human Nature: A Reflection on the Cosmic Connection
I was reading the book Rooted:Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt when these words just hit me and made me pause. ” It is totally 100 percent true: nearly all elements in the human body were made in a star and many have come through several supernovas”- (Dr.…
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Embracing the Silence: Reflections on the Almost Last Day of School
Sitting at my desk on the almost last day of school SILENCE The whir of the AC is all that reaches my ears SILENCE The halls are lonely SILENCE The walls are stripped bare SILENCE The school seems sorrowful SILENCE Summer for students has arrived SILENCE My tired teacher being rests in SILENCE resting and…
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The Battle Within: Body-Mind Tug-of-War
So this was the battle between my body and my brain this morning when the alarm went off. The thoughts bantering about clicked into a Poem for Two Voices. The blue is the messages of my body. The red are the thoughts in my mind. The purple words are said by both voices as they…
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5-4-3-2-1 Final Reflection of the SOLSC – Day 31
5 smiles: I wrote for all 31 days! I know have a list of new poetry forms to try and prompts to use in my notebooking. I made connections with others in this writing community and am so thankful for their comments and support. I am more mindful of moments to write about that happen…
Doodads and Doodles 